Singlit


Ministry of Moral Panic
Sugarbread
This Is What Inequality Looks Like
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Pantheon Graphic Library)
State of Emergency
Impractical Uses of Cake
Kappa Quartet
Homeless
The Great Reclamation
Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited
Inheritance
Sister Snake
Lion City
What Gives Us Our Names
After The Inquiry
Agnes Chew
Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No words were exchanged beyond the brief lines uttered to this nameless stranger, whose inclinations remained unclear. The car sped along empty roads and traversed dingy alleyways. Music blared from its speakers. I did not remember exhaling throughout the entire journey.
Agnes Chew, The Desire for Elsewhere

Agnes Chew
You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still alive and vivid in your mind – almost real – and the reality of your new circumstances has yet to fully sink in. You listen to the familiar melodies that had accompanied you on your journey, and allow the music to evoke landscapes and scenes in your mind. The songs caress your sub-consciousness and fill your being with an airy joy. You are both here and elsewhere. Or perhaps you a ...more
Agnes Chew, The Desire for Elsewhere

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