Rise and fall
Melody Kemp
The Mekong giveth and the Mekong taketh
On standby
Peter Yeoh
Covid-19 has put Jeremy Tiang’s play on Arthur Miller’s visit to China on ice
Carry across
Conner Bouchard-Roberts
Can we still travel in the age of climate change?
Jerryrigged machine
Tilde Acuña
Poetry from Tilde Acuña
Bangkok Days
Pim Wangtechawat
If you grew up in Bangkok, you’re unlikely to notice its bounty of sensory pleasures
Missing on stage
Mina Bui Jones
A world music festival in Australia where Southeast Asian performers are rarely seen
Onward, Christian soldier
David Scott Mathieson
Despite their Christian zeal, these missionaries are effective in saving lives
New cause
Brian Chee-Shing Hioe
A kidnapping hasn’t deterred Lam Wing-kee from opening a new bookshop
Everywhere, forever
Robert Templer
Asia is addicted to plastic
City of light
Sebastian Strangio
Sihanoukville has long had a seamy underbelly
Weary
Lok Man Law
Hong Kong has opened the door to darkness
High and dry
Michael Buckley
The Mekong is not a tap
Chinese history
Michael Vatikiotis
An interview with Wang Gungwu
Flying roti
Marc de Faoite
Celebrating the humble roti canai
Humanitarian breakdown
Benjamin Zawacki
How NGOs responded to Myanmar’s genocide
Spark to fire
Paul French
The history of mass protest in Hong Kong
Yours and mine
Ashvinder Singh
Secrets and lies in colonial Malaya
Human capital
Hsiao Mu
Can Hong Kong remain a global financial centre?
Hong Kong Beauty Treatment 2019
Jennifer Eagleton
A poem by Jennifer Eagleton
爹deh
Leung Rachel Ka Yin
A poem by Leung Rachel Ka Yin
Burning denial
Jeff Sparrow
Australia’s summer from hell
Into Burma
Joseph Woods
Travels in post-democratic Myanmar
Waterland
Peter A. Coclanis
The monsoon has shaped much of South Asia
Magical double
Lara Norgaard
Eka Kurniawan’s new collection of short stories
wait
Rory Harris
A poem by Rory Harris
The lives of others
Pauline Fan
Ho Sok Fong writes from the other side of everything
Little airs
Cedric Van Dijck
The book that killed colonialism
From the burning rabbit hole
Becca Stine
A short story by Becca Stine
Diaspora aporia
Michael Freeman
For poet Monica Sok, the personal is political
Thai Drama
James Weitz
Ethical predicaments in modern Thai fiction
Rukun Tetangga
Jennifer Lindsay
Neighbourhood democracy in Yogyakarta
Cover story
Julia Winterflood
The creative couple behind design outfit Sukutangan
Down the Ganga
Farah Abdessamad
Varanasi’s syrupy Styx
Ipoh City of Love II
Jack Malik
A poem by Jack Malik
Last show
David Scott Mathieson
An ode to Thailand’s lost movie theatres
Lunch out
Kelly Falconer
Remembering the Beijing Bookworm
Trouble
Richard Heydarian
China is facing a regional backlash
Hong Kong burning
Antony Dapiran
On the streets of a city on fire
The challenger
Mutita Chuachang
An interview with Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit
Superstition
Sunisa Manning
Clairvoyants, guns and money