Bibliophobia...!

My unedited review of Anchee Min's The Last Empress that got swallowed up by the labyrinthine editing process at The Star . I felt the ...

For this one, they actually rang me up and sent me a copy of the text to check. Not much to do, really. This time they did a better job. S...

I don't know why I'm furious over this (hat tip to the Bangsar Boy ). But I am. And not just because of the guy in the picture. The...

From what this guy says , we're a nation of readers starved of good and affordable books. He's also telling us that we're probab...

After weeks of waiting, another review. They made this sound more like an advert rather than a ...review. Thoughtful read first publish...

When approached to do this, I honestly didn't know how much difference it would make. This piece was hard to write at first, but looking...

The words "fiction" and "history" both appeared for my previous review. Wha...? I could not - at the time - comment on...