Volume 4

Volume 4

The Spark Vol. 4 is the collaborative creation of the students in AT Nonfiction & Rhetoric 2026-27.

Can I Sit Here Today? — Photo by Hans Tilstra / Unsplash

Can I Sit Here Today?

At Singapore American School, your table at lunch seems to define your place. You have a fixed group of friends, and a fixed location—a single piece in the jigsaw puzzle of the school community. But are the cracks between pieces given? Or are we unnecessarily carving them out?

Dia Bhandari • Issue 1: Fitting In

Lanterns on Trial: What Makes a Superhero Adaptation Authentic? — Image: Disney+ Hotstar, Lanterns (2026).

Lanterns on Trial: What Makes a Superhero Adaptation Authentic?

Green Lantern without cosmic wars or a giant space corps? Lanterns sounds like a recipe for an inauthentic flop. Yet Hal Jordan and John Stewart remain unmistakably themselves. Perhaps faithfulness isn’t about recreating the world a hero came from, but preserving what makes them who they are.

Daniel Guirao • What's Hot

The Cost of Sisterhood — Photo by Kaitlyn Pixley / Unsplash

The Cost of Sisterhood

Are sororities really sisterhood for everyone? What does it actually cost to find your sisterhood?

외국인 (Foreigner) — Photo by Daniel Bernard / Unsplash

외국인 (Foreigner)

I was born in Seoul, while living in Singapore for 12 years. At sixteen, when bleeding out on a basketball court, a coach questions which one of those identities I really am. But in eighteen months, the same country that questioned my belonging will draft me.

Why Is Everyone Watching China’s Beautiful Disaster? — A scene from the most recent Niu Lai movie

Why Is Everyone Watching China’s Beautiful Disaster?

Have you seen a cow stand on two legs with human hands, its mouth mouthing some broken Chinese? Two people made Niu Lai and in its first nine days, only 236 people watched it. It is now the most profitable film ever released, and the reason is a lot larger than just being a viral sensation.