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The nuthatch
I saw a nuthatch in the garden.
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Jolene Tan

February 2024

A.S. Byatt and the uses and misuses of speech
Language, in Byatt's works, is both promise and threat.
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December 2023

My 2023 reading highlights
The best of the books I read for the first time this year.
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October 2023

Primary school can be a good time: A Singaporean parent in England
The anguish of exams and homework does not nurture children's confidence, relationships or intellectual development.
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September 2023

Fragments of a personal history of reading
Like driving, or typing, or getting Mario to stomp Bowser, close and critical reading is unnatural, but also replicable.
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July 2023

POFMA: fake news or false advertising?
The PAP introduced POFMA to a soundtrack of warnings of riots! racial tensions! and uncontrolled violence! Four years later, what sorts of Correction…
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A belated tribute to Malathi Das
An untold story of the courage and integrity of the Chair of 2017’s ‘Many Voices, One Movement’ coalition.
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June 2023

Going to seed in a hot summer
From the ecological imagination of HG Wells to letting my weeds run riot.
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In the Truth Mines
In which I gush about SFF author Greg Egan yet again.
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May 2023

On Ridout: This one really too much already
Is 40 times the basic standard of living "too much"? What about 100 times? Or 200 times?
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'True Blue': a short story
I wrote this two years ago. I was invited to submit to an anthology for Singapore school students, but my entry was spiked at the last minute.
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Introducing Rewording
Yes, I'm starting a mailing list.
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