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
• The Quixotic National Library
• 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
• Causeway Communiqués: Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature
• Coast: A Foreword
• Cyril Wong in the Face of Power
• History and the Writers: Sharing Borders Revisited
• I, J, K
• Life and Times: Edwin Thumboo with Gwee Li Sui
• MC Sharif Uddin’s Stranger to Myself
• National Service in Literature (Abridged)
• New Questions for Heaven
• Night in Novalis, Hegel, and Schelling
• No Man but One is an Island
• On Book Prizes
• Poetry and Tautology: Reading Arthur Yap’s “Paraphrase”
• Poetry and the Renaissance Machine in Singapore
• Reading Edwin Thumboo
• Singaporean Literature and the NUS English Department
• Stories and their Secrets
• Tan Guan Heng’s My Love is Blind
• The Art of Not Learning: Two Versions
• The Auguries of Felix Cheong
• The Call of South Africa in Singapore
• The Cordelia Complex of Grace Chia
• The Critic’s Sense of the Past and the Contemporary
• The Fires of Elangovan
• The Humanity of Anne Lee Tzu Pheng
• The Mischief of Technique in What Michael Farrell Does
• 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
• Thoughts from a Four-Sided Literature
• Two Renaissances: Singapore’s New Poetry and its Discontents
• Understanding Edwin Thumboo
• We Are Born with the Dead
• Westward to the Orient: The Specter of Scientific China in Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis
• Whatever Happened to Politics in Singaporean Poetry?
• Who Won the Battle of Ideas between Newton and Blake?

Religion

• Apocalypse and Apocatastasis: Perhaps, the Reformation According to Adolf von Harnack
• Blessed are the Peacemakers
• Christian Civic Engagement
• Christian to Christian: Collective Repentance
• Come, Let Us Kill Him
• Everything in Common
• Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
• Haiti and the Megachurch
• Jesus Wept
• Lord, Don’t Trouble Yourself
• Not to Be Served But to Serve
• Peace be With You!
• Speak Up or Be Spoken For!
• The Grand Cliché
• The Least of These
• The Religion of the English Bible: From Wycliffe to James I
• There is No Millennium
• Who Will Speak the Healing Words?
• Why Do You Look into the Sky?

Singlish

• Do You Speak Singlish?
• My Singlish Jubilee Wish
• 新加坡人是怎么说英语的

AWARE Notes

• Christians against AWARE Takeover!
• A Christian Solution to the AWARE Conundrum
• Christians in a Pluralistic Society

Blog

• Better Than Ang Pows
• Gweek’s Writing Tips
• My Sister’s Pineapple Tarts

The Ridge Articles

• A Blessing
• Of Rank and Race: A Personal Viewpoint on The Straits Times Schools 100