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
Kissinger and Ellsberg in Vietnam
Thomas A. Bass
How a war hawk became the biggest whistleblower of his time
Call me Ant
Sunisa Manning
Remembering Anthony Veasna So
Back in force
Andrew Quilty
An interview with a Taliban commander
In China’s grip
Yuen Chan
At great cost, journalists continue to bear witness in Hong Kong
Rizal’s revolutionaries
Richard Heydarian
The making of Asia’s freedom fighters
Into the labyrinth
David Scott Mathieson
The making of Myanmar’s Rohingya horrors
Solid object
Holmes Chan
Capturing Hong Kong’s protest movement
Dateline Vietnam
Martin Stuart-Fox
Three female journalists shaped how the Vietnam War was understood
Psychobloom
Anne Stevenson-Yang
The rise of therapy in an anxious China
Coal devotion
Jeff Sparrow
Climate change scepticism is entrenched in Australia
Work robots
Charles Brophy
What we lose with each technology disruption
Truth seekers
Christopher G. Moore
A mission to understand the Heart Sutra
Where they belong
Farah Abdessamad
Looting—and returning—Southeast Asia’s treasures
Empire rage
Carl Vadivella Belle
The education of an anti-colonialist
‘Phone booth’, ‘Shops’, ‘Restaurant’, ‘Factory’, ‘Eggs’, and ‘Huts’
Maw Shein Win
Poetry from Maw Shein Win
Teochew opera
Ken Kwek
A short story by Ken Kwek
‘Winter wanderings’, ‘Gestalt of memories’, ‘During the war’
S Rupsha Mitra
Poetry from S Rupsha Mitra