Olivia Ho

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@ucl English Language & Literature PhD candidate, formerly Straits Times Life arts and books editor. All views here are my own.

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Book review: Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor Of Gladness finds beauty in a forgotten American town

1 week ago | straitstimes.com | Ocean Vuong |Olivia Ho

UPDATED May 31, 2025, 01:15 PM
Book review: Robert Macfarlane’s wondrous Is A River Alive? maps the lives and deaths of water

1 month ago | straitstimes.com | Robert MacFarlane |Robert Macfarlane |Olivia Ho

UPDATED May 03, 2025, 01:15 PM
Book review: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count tells the stories of four African women

Mar 8, 2025 | straitstimes.com | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Olivia Ho

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Dream Count presents four stories about different West African women who migrate to America.
Book review: Nobel Laureate Han Kang’s We Do Not Part bears witness to Jeju’s painful past

Feb 15, 2025 | straitstimes.com | Paige Morris |Olivia Ho

We Do Not Part is Han Kang’s first novel to come out in an English translation after her Nobel Prize win.
Malaysian author Tash Aw wants to reinvent historical epic with new quartet

Feb 15, 2025 | redhot.sg | Olivia Ho

FOR SUBSCRIBERSMalaysian author Tash Aw is behind The South, the first of four novels that will follow a Malaysian family through the decades, beginning in 1997 during the Asian Financial Crisis.PHOTOS: TARA SOSROWARDOYO, FOURTH ESTATE LONDON – Tash Aw wants to reinvent the historical epic. It had always been the Malaysian author’s ambition to write a “big family epic” in the vein of Rohinton Mistry and Vikram Seth, India-born writers he had admired growing up.
Use of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence in Surgical Instrument Recognition

Jan 15, 2025 | mdpi.com | Syed Haider |Olivia Ho |Sahar Borna |Cesar A. Gomez-Cabello

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Book review: Jane Pek’s dating app mystery The Rivals puts a spy in the house of love

Dec 7, 2024 | straitstimes.com | Jane Pek |Olivia Ho

“I’m so sick of online love,” sings American pop star Chappell Roan. As if online dating were not already laden with enough pitfalls, soon you might be questioning not only if someone is lying on his or her profile, but also if you are talking to a real person at all.
Book review: The City And Its Uncertain Walls a shadow of Haruki Murakami’s older, better works

Nov 23, 2024 | straitstimes.com | Haruki Murakami |Philip Gabriel |Olivia Ho

All done! This article is now fully available for youBook review: The City And Its Uncertain Walls a shadow of Haruki Murakami’s older, better works
Impact of Physician Specialty on Treatment Costs of Invasive Melanoma

Nov 8, 2024 | mdpi.com | John Garcia |Olivia Ho |Syed Haider |Sahar Borna

All articles published by MDPI are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. No special permission is required to reuse all or part of the article published by MDPI, including figures and tables. For articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without permission provided that the original article is clearly cited. For more information, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/openaccess.
Book review: How do you love a city? Nghi Vo’s The City In Glass counts the ways

Oct 26, 2024 | straitstimes.com | Nghi Vo |Olivia Ho

In a lecture, Italian writer Italo Calvino called his 1972 book Invisible Cities “something like a last love poem addressed to the city”, “a dream born out of the heart of the unlivable cities we know”.

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15 Jun 24

Thank you to @PJMedHums for publishing my article 'The Undecidable Undead: Zombies as a Deconstruction of Humanity' in their latest issue! https://t.co/C27T4yIQVN

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Our 2024 volume "Greening the Medical Humanities: The Environment and the Body in Conversation" is now available online! Thank you to all our editors and contributors for their hard work 🥳 https://t.co/YlcOefqnpp

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7 Jun 24

RT @MoveableTypeUCL: Ten days left to submit for @ucl Moveable Type's next issue on the theme of PROMISE! deadline June 17 to editors.movea…

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6 Jun 24

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Articles

Book review: Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor Of Gladness finds beauty in a forgotten American town

Book review: Robert Macfarlane’s wondrous Is A River Alive? maps the lives and deaths of water

Book review: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count tells the stories of four African women

Book review: Nobel Laureate Han Kang’s We Do Not Part bears witness to Jeju’s painful past

Malaysian author Tash Aw wants to reinvent historical epic with new quartet

Use of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence in Surgical Instrument Recognition

Book review: Jane Pek’s dating app mystery The Rivals puts a spy in the house of love

Book review: The City And Its Uncertain Walls a shadow of Haruki Murakami’s older, better works

Impact of Physician Specialty on Treatment Costs of Invasive Melanoma

Book review: How do you love a city? Nghi Vo’s The City In Glass counts the ways

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