Freedom for some
Sudipto Sanyal
Freedom is still an ideal for many
The missing half
Peter Zinoman
The forgotten stories from Vietnam’s south
In your face
James Yu
Thai expat literature is littered with bad behaviour
The Ogura hundred
Michael Freeman
A new translation of Japan’s seminal poetry collection
Potato eater
Tse Wei
A Singaporean banquet
My home canal
Anjan Sundaram
The sounds and smells of Phnom Penh
Coming through
Louis Raymond
A profile of Franco-Vietnamese artist Bao Vuong
Tokyo diners
Mark Robinson
Three dining tales from Tokyo
In transit
Farah Abdessamad
When Cambodia opened up
Ways of writing
Emily Ding
The trouble with travel writing
‘Sometimes’
Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed
Poetry by Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed
A local icon
Marc de Faoite
A towel for all times
Marking time
Sean Chadwell
A bookshop waits for its customers
China at large
Bryony Lau
How to live with a powerful neighbour
A realist’s lament
Michael Reilly
For China and Australia, a question of values
K Za Win
Poetry by the late K Za Win
Leaving Myanmar
Ben Dunant
As things fall apart, a foreign journalist is forced to pack his bags
Prelude to a coup
Kenneth Wong
The preconditions of the coup in Myanmar were there
They don’t talk big
Ko Inwa
Poetry by Ko Inwa
Hidden country
Anne Stevenson-Yang
Out from sight, poverty remains persistent in rural China
Fearless
Abby Seiff
Myanmar protest leader Ei Thinzar Maung speaks while in hiding
Our lost year
Pauline Fan
Democracy, the virus, and a missing year in Malaysia
Exile island
Joshua Yang
Social and personal trauma in Taiwan
Clan network
Francis Moriarty
Hong Kong and the history of globalisation
A royal pain
Puangchon Unchanam
Politics and monarchy in Thailand
The occupation
Peter A. Coclanis
Japan’s occupation of Southeast Asia
Unmade lives
Vikram Kapur
A short story by Vikram Kapur
The writer retires
Peter Zinoman
How Nguyen Huy Thiep changed contemporary Vietnamese literature
Bard of the Viets
Thomas A. Bass
A review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed
Behind the blue fence
Connla Stokes
A quarantine, and food, in Ho Chi Minh City
Be Filipino
Christopher Cañete Rodriguez Kelly
Contemporary fiction from the Philippines
Versions of a voice
Michael Freeman
Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s final collection
Kennedy Town, 5:30 a.m.
Maureen Tai
An early morning in Hong Kong
Riding it out
Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh
Edmund Wee and Epigram Books
Rocking the burbs
Ken Kwek
A history of rock ’n’ roll in Singapore
The art of imitation
Lawrence Li
On Japanese pop legend Ōtaki Eiichi
Thai strips
Benjamin Tausig
A short history of Thai comics
Teaching days
Stephen Gregory
A teacher reflects on life in Brunei
Nov 6, 2019
Sam Cheuk
Poetry from Sam Cheuk
Boxed-in
Lam Le
Time slips away in a Hanoi bookstore