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Whatever it is, it will be difficult. It will be strange. And it will force you to think.

Quek addresses this in the afterword of his new collection of essays, "The Layman’s Lexicon" (due out November 2025): zachariah quek

Quek’s response was classic Quek. He did not apologize. He did not double down. Instead, he wrote a 10,000-word essay titled "On the Utility of Discomfort" and published it for free on Substack. In it, he argued that "a culture that cannot tolerate the possibility of a wrong opinion is a culture that has given up on the process of thinking." Whatever it is, it will be difficult

Then, listen to Episode 17 of The Silent Archive : "The Sewer Scene in Mee Pok Man ." After that, you will either be a fan for life or you will find him insufferably pretentious. There is no middle ground with Zachariah Quek. What is next for Zachariah Quek ? Rumors are swirling. Some say he is writing a screenplay for a local director. Others claim he has purchased a 40-foot container ship to turn into a floating library in the Singapore Strait. Quek himself has only said this: "I am working on something about lullabies and logistics. I cannot say more." Quek addresses this in the afterword of his

For ten years, he was invisible. He wrote essays for journals with circulations under 500. He translated obscure Malay poetry into English. He lived in a rented HDB flat in Tiong Bahru, surrounded by stacks of critical theory and pulp detective novels.

Then, in 2021, everything changed. The primary reason people search for Zachariah Quek today is his 2021 novel, The Geometry of Rain . The book defied categorization. It is part noir thriller, part meditation on urban planning, and part family saga set against the backdrop of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis.