Jom 2025 Annual Issue No.3

Paperback, 100 pages

Best long-form writing on Singapore

Jom was founded to inform and delight with slow journalism, grounded in humility and sensitivity, and guided by the never-ending quest for truth.

Slow journalism is a concept that has emerged as a rebuke to a new media landscape that often incentivises speed over quality. Many new outfits, in Singapore and elsewhere, feel a constant pressure to churn out content so as to engage as many eyeballs as possible (which in turn makes them more attractive to advertising dollars). In such an environment, journalists feel forced to respond to every issue immediately, even to the point of manufacturing outrage. Jom is part of the small resistance against these market forces.

Contents
All In Good Time: The Poetics and Politics of Partying in Singapore | Sakinah Safiee
Raka Maitra's Migration of Forms | Charmaine Poh with Amrita Chandradas
The Kadayanallur Muslim Thread in Our Fabric | Abishek Mehrotra
Healing the Lovesick in the Malay World | Faizah Zakaria
Enter Ghost: Spiritual Disturbances in the Singaporean Legal Drama | Khairllah Irwan
Crossword Puzzle | Julian Lim
Syncretic Sorcery: How Singaporean Spiritualists are Making Healing Their Own | Tsen-Waye Tay with Kathy Anne Lim
Choosing the Double Bind: The Risks and Pleasures of Shibari in Singapore | Teo Xioa Ting with Grace Chen
The Soft Companionship of Grief-Garments | Xingyun Shen
Slow Style, Formal Pleasure | Faris Joraimi
Where Does Your Story Begin | Sudhir Vadaketh