May 25, 2021 Unsplash Is it just us, or has Covid-19 left the world stuck on pause? We don’t just mean the lockdowns that bring society to a standstill – we’re also talking about the second, third, and even fourth waves of the virus that sweep out from nowhere, leaving us holding our breath permanently. If you’re feeling the ‘here we go again’ blues from Singapore’s heightened restrictions, we’ve dedicated this May ‘s curation of novels to limbo in its many aspects – solitude, time loops, and trances galore. Timequake, Kurt Vonnegurt If you’re feeling the ennui creep in from Singapore’s sort-of-not-quite lockdown 2.0, it’s a little taste of the numb horror of Kurt Vonnegut’s Timequake, in which the whole world is stuck in replay for a solid decade.