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Subscribe now Already have a paid account? Sign inIt's neither crime nor the weather that's on writer Myle Yan Tay's mind as a student in Chicago. It's booze. Yan tracks his relationship with alcohol and newly made friends in the "Windy City", as a frigid winter approaches.
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Subscribe now Already have a paid account? Sign inA queer Singaporean artist in Taiwan embraces their identity by finding a way through Drag to express creativity and gender fluidity without fear of being censored.
Leaving the bubble of modernity for the “Land of the Long White Cloud”, Unsu Lee attempts to find his way back into the expansive, healing arms of Mother Earth, where he might metamorphose from ‘hungry, capitalist caterpillar’ into net producer, and to finally recognise his place on this planet.
Held annually in the former whaling capital of the world, this 26-hour reading marathon of the novel Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, welcomes a new fan on board, who, swept away by the intensity of the event, meditates on the universality of Melville's lines.
Hong Kong is arguably the only other geography that one can compare Singapore to: both British colonial ports, Chinese-majority, East-meets-West, Asian Tiger city-states. Here's why many Hong Kongers are now moving south.
We still live with the consequences of the illegal, ill-fated invasion, including jihadis like ISIS. Though other democracies have publicly interrogated their actions 20 years ago, Singapore never has.
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