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
- 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
- Christian Civic Engagement
- Christian to Christian: Collective Repentance
- Come, Let Us Kill Him
- Everything in Common
- 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
AWARE Notes
- Christians against AWARE Takeover!
- A Christian Solution to the AWARE Conundrum
- Christians in a Pluralistic Society
Blog
The Ridge Articles
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