T.A. Morton talks to Dawn Farnham about her shift into crime fiction Though she has now returned to her native Australia, novelist Dawn Far...

Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) is currently underway - it runs at various venues until November 26.  To suit our strange times, this year’...

 Devika Misra reports. Singaporean-born, Paris-based Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a poet, translator, musician, and now novelist. Her debut work of...

Courtesy of Author About the Author: Sharon Wee was born and raised in Singapore, graduating from the National University of Singapore. She ...

Southeast Asia’s largest literary extravaganza, The Singapore Writers Festival, will be held next month. Now in its 26th edition, this year’...

Devika Misra reports on a conversation between Rachel Heng, and some of her readers.  Rachel Heng was born and raised in Singapore. She wri...

Courtesy of Author Book Synopsis The stories in Agnes Chew’s first fiction collection illuminate the complexity of choice when duty and desi...

T.A.Morton gives a sneak preview of Now Boarding , an exhibition opening on May 27 at the National Museum, Singapore.  In 1956, writer W. So...

Editor's note: We're delighted to feature a review of Tse Hao Guang's latest collection  by another gifted Singapore poet, Mok Z...

  Featuring a careful curation of unconventional yet universal life stories from a diverse cast of characters, The Visible Invisibles: Stori...

UK-based Paula Greenlees lived in Singapore during the late 1980s. She fell in love with Southeast Asia and tried to travel as much as possi...

Singapore Writers Festival 2022 (SWF) opened on November 4, and continues until November 20th.  Here, Pooja Nansi, poet, educator and, since...

Publisher Fong Hoe Fang introduces the QLRS editors Clearly, in-person events have returned in style to Singapore’s poetry circuit. The past...

Guest post by Laura Jane Lee Daryl Lim Wei Jie’s sophomore collection Anything But Human is a provocative incantation of sensations and sen...

  Block 115 Commonwealth Drive, Singapore's first flatted factory. Editor's note: Our poetry column takes a break this month as I di...

Though Jayanthi Sankar is a native of India, where her books are published, she lives in Singapore.  Her fiction often explores the diversit...

Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy ...

Editor's note : Given the upheavals of the past two years, a theme that has surfaced repeatedly at discussions and readings of poetry is...

Asian Books Blog is based in Singapore, so we occasionally highlight book-related events in the city. Celebrating Forty Years of Transformin...

Editor’s note: Here in Singapore, public conversation has in recent weeks revolved around the fate of the island’s forests – sanctuaries of...