Bibliophobia...!

I wasn't sure I was up to the task of reviewing a Dan Brown book. What's there to look at? Could I be fair, when others at more esta...

first published in The Malaysian Insider , 23 May 2013 For reasons I'll only divulge over coffee, I haven't gotten involved in an...

Last January, I received an e-mail that began thus: my name is boey, and a friend referred me to your blog, where i ninjaed this address. ...

Generally I make it a point to never review the same place twice; every time I return to a place it has folded, become an entirely different...

Easter, Sunday, 2013 : This review struggled to find a home for a while, mainly because of the novel's premise. It ended up in TMI , on ...

My food piece submission for The Malaysian Insider before I checked myself into hospital for minor surgery; it was published three days aft...

The adventures of a portly Punjabi private eye continues first published in The Malaysian Insider , 11 March 2013 After discovering and...

This piece is a little different from the kinds I usually write, and it's not (just) because of the herbs. Since writing this I've...

Some time back, I'd read a not-very-glowing assessment of Map of the Invisible World . So, when given the chance to review this book, I ...

This review threatened to go on and on, so I tried keeping it within the scope of the book. I thought the release of this was timely, consid...

I had difficulty containing myself when reviewing this book. When you go through and correct a lot of bad stuff in your job, a good read wil...

first published in The Malaysian Insider , 02 January 2013 Know that thing about people gaining weight during Christmas? It's true. I ...

When I was writing this, I'd forgotten several other relevant titbits: levels of carbon pollution rose again last year, and a lot of it...

first published in The Malaysian Insider , 23 December 2012 Melody was meeting a Frenchman in Bangsar at the ungodly hour of eight in the ...