Recently described as 'Asia's Sexiest Philosopher', Jeremy Fernando's erudition and grasp of theory
are balanced by a playful approach to popular culture and, in real life,
a sartorial elan that does, indeed, match his sobriquet. 

~ Walter Mason

selected interviews

Jeremy Fernando, ‘What’s your way of seeing through literature?’, with Cyril Wong, by The National University of Singapore Centre for the Arts, 10 January, 2020.

---, ‘Activismo y arte: Escritura para la hora del duelo’ by Carolina Keve in Clarín, 14 January, 2019.

---, ‘On hands, writing, moving images’ by Matthew Calleja in videocafesocial, 20 April, 2017.

---, ‘A day in the life of Jeremy Fernando’ by Rachel Tay & Denise Goh in Tembusu Treehouse, 30 March, 2017.

---, ‘TelosVision’, in conversation with Berit-Jane Soli-Holt in Berfrois: Literature, Ideas, Tea, 13 December, 2015.

---, ‘acting, philosophy, love: Jeremy Fernando in conversation with Gael Garcia Bernal’ at The European Graduate School, 1 September, 2015.

---, ‘Writing Death’ by Walter Mason in Literary Minded, 11 November, 2011.

reviews

The feather of Ma’at

Janice Sim, ‘The Feather of Ma’at’ in The Singapore Review of Books, April 2023.

S/Ž | A European Manifesto

Joe Linker, F/Z and F/Z 2: Doubt & Surety in The Coming of the Toads, January 2022.
(republished in Queen Mob’s Tea House)

writing skin

Joe Linker, ‘Writing on Jeremy Fernando’s writing skin’ in Berfrois: Literature, Tea, Culture, February 2020.

je me touche

Joe Linker, ‘Notes on je me touche’ in The Coming of the Toads, November 2018.

Setsuko Adachi, ‘Spoil it’ in The Singapore Review of Books, August 2018.

in fidelity

Joel Gn, ‘A Labour of Love’ in The Singapore Review of Books, May 2018.

In nomine patris …

Michael Kearney, ‘et filios …’ in The Singapore Review of Books, November 2016.

On thinking with – scientists, Sciences, and Isabelle Stengers

Eric Kerr, ‘Feature’ in The Singapore Review of Books, September 2018.

For, the pleasure of the text

Joe Linker, ‘Diary: How to Improve the Text (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)’ in The Coming of the Toads, January 2018.

Writing Art

Michael Kearney, ‘The Art of Writing Art’ in The Singapore Review of Books, June 2016.

On fidelity; or, will you still love me tomorrow …

Joel Gn, ‘To Love and to Hold, Or to Write and Let Go? Jeremy Fernando's On Fidelity’ in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, September 2014.

Requiem for the factory

Julie O’Yang, ‘Deliciously out of the blue’ in XiN Magazine, no.2, September 2013.

Anders Kølle, ‘Requiem for the factory’ in The Singapore Review of Books, August 2013.

Writing Death

Lim Lee Ching, ‘Don’t forget to remember me’ in continent: A Quarterly Review of Culture, December 2011.

The Suicide Bomber; and her gift of death

Peter van der Kamp, ‘Confronting Terror through Death Itself: Jeremy Fernando's The Suicide Bomber; and her gift of death’ in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, June 2013.

Yanyun Chen, ‘Trauma structures us, so hold on to it’ in The Singapore Review of Books, June 2012.

A. Staley Groves, ‘Surprise! You’re dead’ in The Journal of the International Association of Transdisciplinary Psychology, May 2010.

On Happiness

Shobha Avadhani, ‘Or give me death: the tyranny of happiness’ in Freedom to think, December 2015.

Elizabeth Tan, ‘Review of On Happiness’ in The Nanyang Chronicle (Vol 19, issue 8), February 2013.

Reading Blindly

Robert Lumsden, ‘Review of Reading Blindly’ in Transnational Literature (vol 3:1), November 2010.

Christian Hänggi, ‘Review of Reading Blindly’ in Semiophagy (vol 4), Fall 2010.

Reflections on (T)error

Julia Hölzl, ‘Review of Reflections on (T)error’ in Semiophagy (vol 2), Spring 2009.