Essays
This list features a selection of published essays. If you know of any more that should be put up, do let me know to aid my compilation.
Biographies
- Borges and I
- David Friedrich Strauss, 1808-1874
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, 1775-1854
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1729-1781
- Homer at the Edge of the World
- Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck, 1744-1829
- Keats: The Little Poetic Giant
- Les Confessions (The Confessions), 1764-1770
- Pierre-Simon de Laplace, 1749-1827
- Said: World, Text, and Critic
Occasions
- Art and the War
- Life
- Dramatic Dialoguing
- Religion and the War
- Singapore Dreams Tonight!
- Sun Day was a Weekday
- Voltaire in Singapore
- When is a Family Not a Family?
Criticism
- Alienation: Dave Chua’s Singapore
- Apocatastasis in the Blake-Swedenborg Relation
- Boey Kim Cheng’s Singapore
- Coast: A Foreword
- I, J, K
- New Questions for Heaven
- Night in Novalis, Hegel, and Schelling
- Poetry and Tautology: Reading Arthur Yap’s “Paraphrase”
- Poetry and the Renaissance Machine in Singapore
- Stories and their Secrets
- The Art of Not Learning: Two Versions
- The Auguries of Felix Cheong
- The Call of South Africa in Singapore
- The Critic’s Sense of the Past and the Contemporary
- The New Poetry of Singapore
- The Road People: Poetry and Urban (Im)Mobility in Singapore
- The Shape-Shifting Literature of Singapore
- The Sleep of God: Schleiermacher in the Postmodern World
- Two Renaissances: Singapore’s New Poetry and its Discontents
- Westward to the Orient: The Specter of Scientific China in Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis
- Who Won the Battle of Ideas between Newton and Blake?
Religion
- Apocalypse and Apocatastasis: Perhaps, the Reformation According to Adolf von Harnack
- Christian to Christian: Collective Repentance
- Haiti and the Megachurch
- Speak Up or Be Spoken For!
- The Grand Cliché
- The Religion of the English Bible: From Wycliffe to James I
- There is No Millennium
AWARE Notes
- Christians against AWARE Takeover!
- A Christian Solution to the AWARE Conundrum
- Christians in a Pluralistic Society
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