Essays on Art & Literature
'‘On Giving’, in On Giving (Singapore: National Gallery Singapore, 2022)
‘Drawing on Life: Chng Seok Tin, Drawings from 1970-1988,’ in Chng Seok Tin: An Unbroken Line 《连绵不绝的线》(Singapore: Jendela, 2019)
‘Where Durians, Limbs, Mouths Meet Eye, Mind, Paint,’ in Alvin Ong: Supper Club (Singapore: Yavuz Gallery, 2019)
‘Ramblings of Eye and Imagination,’ in Alwyn Chong’s Picturing and Imagining the Okavango Delta (Singapore: Alwyn Chong, 2017) – Silver award at the Singapore Creative Circle Gong Awards 2018
Review of Lauren Groff’s Florida, in The Straits Times (16 October 2018)
‘The Whole,’ in Ang Song Nian’s artist book Hanging Heavy On My Eyes (Singapore: NTU, 2017)
‘Doorway to A Past’, review of Madeleine Thien’s Do Not Say We Have Nothing, in The Straits Times (4 September 2016)
‘Voices of the Self,’ The Straits Times (11 June 2016)
‘[Robert] Zhao Renhui’s Frame of Fiction,’ in Reflect/Refract: Essays on Photography in Singapore (Singapore: Objectifs, 2013)
‘Drying Fish in Singapore Art,’ in BiblioAsia vol. 7, issue 1 (April 2011)
‘Monna Innominata and Christina Rossetti’s Audible Unhappiness,’ in The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry (Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2005), 174-193
‘Of Trees and the Heartland: Singapore's Narratives,’ in Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Yeo Wei Wei, eds., Beyond Description (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), 17-29
‘City as Theatre: Singapore, State of Distraction,’ in Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Yeo Wei Wei, eds., Postcolonial Urbanism: South-east Asian Cities and Global Processes (London and New York: Routledge, 2003), 245-264
‘Dante's Embodiment of Literary Tradition in the Commedia,’ Dante Studies (2003), 67- 94