Booker Prize 2025 longlist: See the 13 novels that made the cut Culture August 19, 2025 The books are centred around how the circumstances beyond our control shape individual identity across time and culture.
8 new books to add to your beach reading list Culture August 14, 2025 The latest releases to peruse on your next vacation.
8 transporting works of historical fiction to read now Culture July 17, 2025 Evocative books that will sweep you across different eras and lands.
8 short stories for summer 2025 Culture July 4, 2025 What these books lack in page number, they make up for in depth, emotion and intrigue.
Tash Aw puts his spin on the Asian epic with a quartet of reads, starting with 'The South' Culture February 26, 2025 The book introduces a family falling apart, like the crumbling farm they inherited.
South Korean literature is urging the world to slow down in an age of hustle culture Culture November 29, 2024 A new subgenre known as “healing fiction” have come to attract readers who frown upon the rise-and-grind concept and are looking for a way out.
Jamie Solomon’s 'When Our Lives Intersect' is a love letter to magical Fraser’s Hill Culture November 13, 2024 Family trips up Fraser’s Hill stir Jamie Solomon’s artistic side. And, tuning in to her surroundings, she hears simple truths.
8 translated works of fiction by acclaimed international wordsmiths to check out Culture October 5, 2024 Storytelling without boundaries.
Malaysia author of Indian origin Tutu Dutta explores friendship, bullying and animal exploitation in her latest book Culture August 10, 2024 Many scenes and details in 'The Fraught Lives of Nathan Kwan and Lapsang Souchong' are drawn from her own personal experiences.
Malaysian-born author Amy Su-May Tan confronts questions on migration, cultural connection and belonging in her books Culture August 9, 2024 'Lake Malibu and other stories' and 'Katie Goes to KL' are an ode to her home country.
