Aging Gunn has a few bullets left
Review of Thom Gunn's Boss Cupid.
Beta Issue

The Emperor's New Book
Toh Hsien Min reviews Seamus Heaney's Electric Light.
Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001

The Beautiful and the Damned
Toh Hsien Min reviews Anne Carson's The Beauty of the Husband.
Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001

The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Jeremy Tiang reviews Hanif Kureishi's Gabriel's Gift.
Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001

Cyril Disobedience
Jeremy Tiang reviews Cyril Wong's The End of His Orbit.
Vol. 1 No. 2 Jan 2002

The Inconsistent Story of Mr Richard Lim
Cyril Wong reviews Richard Lim's Got Singapore.
Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002

Stop the Bus, I'm Getting Off!
Cyril Wong reviews Yap Wy-En's Life's Bus-Stop.
Vol. 1 No. 3 Apr 2002

Maiden Voyage Flounders on Lack of Distinction
Leonard Ng reviews kensai's Maiden.
Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002

Marrying Death to Beauty
Cyril Wong reviews Linda Pastan's The Last Uncle.
Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002

Candle to the Sun
Toh Hsien Min reviews David Lehman's The Evening Sun.
Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002

Tales of the City
Jeremy Tiang reviews Postmodern Singapore.
Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002

Overworked Symbols Conceal Gems
Afiza reviews The Merlion and the Hibiscus.
Vol. 1 No. 4 Jul 2002

Coming to Terms with Terror
Jeremy Tiang reviews September 11 and Political Freedoms.
Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002

Art Pitted Against Travel
Barnard Turner reviews Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel.
Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002

But Some Are More Free Than Others
Toh Hsien Min reviews Why Do People Hate America?.
Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002

Packing Quite A Punch
Chia Yueh Chin reviews Koh Beng Liang's last three women.
Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002

dowhile doodah
Koh Jee Leong reviews Yong Shu Hoong's dowhile.
Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002

Good Intentions Point to Critical Needs
Rajeev Patke reviews Singapore Literature: A Critical Reader.
Vol. 2 No. 1 Oct 2002

Fundamental Positions
Koh Jee Leong reviews Cyril Wong's below: absence.
Vol. 2 No. 2 Jan 2003

Handle Poetry With Care
Yeo Yen Ping reviews Felix Cheong's Broken By The Rain.
Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003

How To Be Seriously Alone
Gerard Yee reviews Jonathan Franzen's How To Be Alone.
Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003

On the Familiar Made Exotic
Wena Poon reviews Thomas Kitching's Life and Death in Changi.
Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003

Gritted Teeth and Stoic Strength
Zhang Ruihe reviews From Boys To Men.
Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003

Getting the House in Order
Sheo S. Rai reviews People Like Us.
Vol. 2 No. 3 Apr 2003

Monsoon Reading
Cyril Wong reviews City of Rain.
Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003

Ponderous Puns and Meandering Metaphors
Ng Wei Chian reviews The Manic Memoirs of Terry Ho.
Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003

If It Ain't Spoilt...
Jeremy Tiang reviews PIE to SPOILT.
Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003

Don’t Judge An Anthology By Its Introduction aka Things That You Cannot Help But Notice
Anne Seah reviews Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover.
Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003

In The Observation Ward
Toh Hsien Min reviews No Visitors Allowed.
Vol. 2 No. 4 Jul 2003

Startled Deer Poetry
Chia Yueh Chin reviews a single headlamp.
Vol. 3 No. 1 Oct 2003

Modernity and Its Discontents
Ng Wei Chian reviews William Lim's Alternative (Post)Modernity: An Asian Perspective.
Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004

No Holiday From The Self
Leonard Ng reviews Zia Zaman's Losing Oneself in Remote Asia.
Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004

A Dark Contemporary Eye
Neil Murphy reviews Claire Tham's The Gunpowder Trail and Other Stories.
Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004

Slippery Disconnect
Alvin Pang reviews Koh Buck Song's The Ocean of Ambition.
Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 2004

A Wilting Bloom
Paul Tan reviews Eunice Chew's The Sea In Blossom.
Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004

Death Is A Ceremony
Robert Yeo reviews Cyril Wong's unmarked treasure.
Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004

Sky In A Hundred Puddles
Toh Hsien Min reviews W.B. Keckler's Sanskrit of the Body.
Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004

Light As Ash
Cyril Wong reviews Heng Siok Tian's Contouring.
Vol. 3 No. 3 Apr 2004

Fortune Turned To Stone
Aaron Lee reviews Holiday Coast Medusa.
Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004

A T'ang Canon
Gilbert Wesley Purdy reviews a new translation of Poems of the Masters.
Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004

Of Politics, Proles and Party Members
Ng Wei Chian reviews Kee Thuan Chye.
Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004

Locating Logos
Cyril Wong reviews Mani Rao.
Vol. 3 No. 4 Jul 2004

Gems under the Topsoil
Cyril Wong reviews Madeleine Marie Slavick.
Vol. 4 No. 1 Oct 2004

Opus for Eye and Ear
Ronald Klein reviews David Mitchell.
Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005

Not Yet Ideal
Leonard Ng reviews idea to ideal.
Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005

Access Denied
Toh Hsien Min reviews Malaysian and Filipino poetry.
Vol. 4 No. 2 Jan 2005

Epic Versions, Uneven Results
Cyril Wong reviews Eddie Tay.
Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005

Weeping for the Old Kind World
Toh Hsien Min reviews Kazuo Ishiguro.
Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005

Cleaving Cleavage
Anne Seah reviews Chris Tysh.
Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005

A Poet of the Moment
Neil Murphy reviews Madeleine Lee.
Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005

Limping with Fever and Discomfort
Nicholas Liu reviews Terence Heng.
Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005

Drowning in Nostalgia
Wilson Goh reviews Michelle Lim Min Min.
Vol. 4 No. 4 Jul 2005

Other Fish To Fry
Toh Hsien Min reviews Tan Teck Howe.
Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005

Joining the Blurred Dots
Huang Qin Qin reviews Arlene Ang.
Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005

Inbetweeners
Zhuang Yisa reviews Karla Huston and David Chorlton chapbooks.
Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005

The Shadow's Missing Half
Michelle Lim reviews Haruki Murakami.
Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005

Swanning Details
Wendy Gan reviews D. Devika Bai.
Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005

Warp And Weft
Tamara S. Wagner reviews Interlogue 5.
Vol. 5 No. 1 Oct 2005

Rubbing Out New Maps
Boey Kim Cheng reviews Yong Shu Hoong
Vol. 5 No. 2 Jan 2006

The Body In Flight
Kao Jong-Ee reviews Shirley Lim
Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006

An Eye on the Eight-ball
Toh Hsien Min reviews Sid Gómez Hildawa
Vol. 5 No. 3 Apr 2006

Identifying Absence
Debbie Chia reviews Yeow Kai Chai
Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006

Hand on Heartlands
Aaron Lee reviews Paul Tan.
Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006

I For Indulgence
Eric Low reviews Vivienne Yeo.
Vol. 6 No. 1 Oct 2006

Sparkling Glass
Shirley Lim on Wong Phui Nam
Vol. 6 No. 2 Jan 2007

Heartland of Myths and Alter Egos
Aaron Lee reviews Ng Yi-Sheng
Vol. 7 No. 1 Jan 2008

A Singaporean Diaspora?
Eddie Tay reviews Wena Poon
Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008

Beyond Colloquial Prowesses
Gwee Li Sui reviews Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia
Vol. 7 No. 2 Apr 2008

Gaps between the Bars
Adeline Koh reviews Pranav S. Joshi
Vol. 7 No. 3 Jul 2008

Lost in Transition
Ng Yi-Sheng reviews Toh Hsien Min
Vol. 7 No. 4 Oct 2008

A Postmodern Naturalism
Leonard Ng reviews A Field Guide to Surreal Botany.
Vol. 8 No. 1 Jan 2009

All So Familiar, It Could Be Home
Toh Hsien Min reviews Simon Tay's City of Small Blessings.
Vol. 8 No. 2 Apr 2009

Valpolicella with Chicken Rice
David Fedo reviews Double Skin
Vol. 8 No. 4 Oct 2009

Singapore Between Past and Future
Shirley Lim reviews Boey Kim Cheng
Vol. 8 No. 4 Oct 2009

No Grand New Word
Nicholas Liu reviews Gilbert Koh
Vol. 8 No. 4 Oct 2009

Singular Voice, Plural Tongues
Kristina Tom reviews Tumasik.
Vol. 9 No. 1 Jan 2010

This Image of Themselves
Thow Xin Wei reviews Reflecting on the Merlion.
Vol. 9 No. 1 Jan 2010

Treading Safely
Jen Crawford reviews Interlogue 8.
Vol. 9 No. 1 Jan 2010

Like Cliffs of Granite
Wena Poon reviews Mary O'Donnell
Vol. 9 No. 2 Apr 2010

Uncertain Mastery
Nicholas Liu reviews Koh Jee Leong.
Vol. 9 No. 2 Apr 2010

Overgrown American pastoral landscapes
Toh Hsien Min reviews David Oliveira and David Fedo
Vol. 9 No. 2 Apr 2010

Buoyant Pulse
David Fedo reviews Lydia Kwa
Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 2010

Fuelled By Fear
Cyril Wong reviews C.K. Williams
Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 2010

Tribute To The Cosmopolitan
Judith Huang reviews Wena Poon
Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 2010

Singapore Gem
Chew Yi Wei reviews Writing Singapore
Vol. 9 No. 3 Jul 2010

Problems and Promises
Nicholas Liu reviews Grace Chua
Vol. 9 No. 4 Oct 2010

Willing to Share
David Fedo reviews Yong Shu Hoong
Vol. 9 No. 4 Oct 2010

An Ominous Map
Grace Chua reviews Fifty on 50
Vol. 9 No. 4 Oct 2010

Healing Landscapes
Jen Crawford reviews John Mateer
Vol. 10 No. 1 Jan 2011

Into The Abyss We Go
Amos Toh reviews Cyril Wong
Vol. 10 No. 1 Jan 2011

Precious Stones, Sometimes Inscrutable
Gilbert Koh reviews Chandran Nair
Vol. 10 No. 1 Jan 2011

Daydreams in Monochrome
Malcolm Tay reviews the comic book edition of Gone Case
Vol. 10 No. 2 Apr 2011

Six of the Best
Laremy Lee reviews Tan Tarn How
Vol. 10 No. 3 Jul 2011

Only Project
Nicholas Liu reviews Koh Jee Leong
Vol. 10 No. 3 Jul 2011

Leaving Things Open
Cyril Wong reviews Robert Yeo
Vol. 11 No. 1 Jan 2012

Stranger In His Backyard
Malcolm Tay reviews Troy Chin
Vol. 11 No. 1 Jan 2012

All Ears
Miriam Lo reviews Angeline Yap
Vol. 11 No. 1 Jan 2012

History As Fiction and/or Fiction As History
David Fedo reviews Meira Chand
Vol. 11 No. 1 Jan 2012

Picture-Perfect
David Fedo reviews Chris Mooney-Singh
Vol. 11 No. 2 Apr 2012

B-Side Record
Ronald Klein reviews One.
Vol. 11 No. 3 Jul 2012

On the Subject of Race
Laremy Lee reviews Alfian Sa'at
Vol. 11 No. 3 Jul 2012

All Things Pass with Time, All Things Freeze with Time
Sam Ng reviews Christine Chia
Vol. 11 No. 4 Oct 2012

Double Vision
Leonard Ng reviews Ouyang Yu
Vol. 11 No. 4 Oct 2012

Long-Distance Writing
Toh Hsien Min reviews Colin Cheong and Stephanie Ye
Vol. 11 No. 4 Oct 2012

Something’s Missing
Cyril Wong reviews Felix Cheong.
Vol. 12 No. 1 Jan 2013

The Present is a Foreign Country
Stephanie Ye reviews Balik Kampung
Vol. 12 No. 1 Jan 2013

O Charming Pageantry
Thow Xin Wei reviews Koh Jee Leong.
Vol. 12 No. 1 Jan 2013

Brittle Mirrors
Thow Xin Wei reviews Dave Chua.
Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013

A Bleak Ecstasy
Cyril Wong reviews Mark Strand.
Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013

Caught in the Heartland
Paul Ng reviews Lee Jing-Jing.
Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013

Fragmented Quest
Cyril Wong reviews Goro Takano.
Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013

Full On, Close Up
David Fedo reviews Alvin Pang.
Vol. 12 No. 2 Apr 2013

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