Cursed
Faisal Tehrani
“May your arse be on fire one day, Najib!”
Extinction
Jeff Sparrow
The future as a threat not a promise
Loss and chance
Michael Vatikiotis
The Lisu in China, Myanmar and Thailand
The gadfly
Sean Gleeson
Michael Vickery’s flawed history
Unthink
Joe Freeman
Meditation and its discontents
Displaced
James Weitz
Art and assimilation in Borneo
Dear TC
Andrew Lam
A short story by Andrew Lam
frayed; shoes
Rory Harris
Two poems by Rory Harris
Marginal
Paul Arthur
Nha Thuyen’s essays on Vietnamese poetry
Small town romance
Robert Yeo
Inspired by Yin C.H.
On the fence
Theophilus Kwek
Singapore’s great divide
Don’t be afraid
Fahmi Mustaffa
A chance encounter in George Town
The reformer
Greg Earl
B.J. Habibie (1936–2019), Indonesia’s third president
War myths
Alexander Wells
A new Australian film misses the mark
Revival
Lok Man Law
Albert Wan’s Bleak House Books
Going, together
Lok Man Law
How hope was crushed in Hong Kong
The pushback
Antony Dapiran
Challenging China’s authority
The killings
Margaret Scott
Time for a full account of 1965
Local knowledge
Robert Templer
An interview with Sidney Jones
My sister’s story
Pim Wangtechawat
History is thicker than water
Have faith
George Styllis
The great escape from Tham Luang
Paper estate
Jeff Sparrow
Shaping Australia’s print landscape
No limit
Alice Dawkins
A millennial in Beijing
To J.
Aiden Heung
A poem by Aiden Heung
Tithes that bind
Nick Freeman
Sending money back to Vietnam
Upon the crags
Rupert Arrowsmith
For love and empire
The gambler
Hugo Pinto
The life of a Macau casino tycoon
Enduring
Aizuddin H. Anuar
An education in Sabah
Spooked
Andrew Selth
The ghosts that haunt Myanmar
One of us
Preeta Samarasan
Tash Aw writes about migrant labour
Coming out
Aimee Chanthadavong
Australia’s Sweatshop movement
Play it again
Michael Freeman
Ocean Vuong’s debut novel
home
B.B.P. Hosmillo
A poem by B.B.P. Hosmillo
Misconceived
Anthony Morreale
Penguin stumbles over a Vietnamese classic
Rain dance
Amy Doffegnies
From Myanmar to Ireland
On the island
Marc de Faoite
My island home
Place and time
Louis Raymond
The art of Nguyen Manh Hung
Homefare
Tiffany Teng
The food we eat and why we eat it
Lost in paradise
Zachary Stockill
Last stop in Chiang Mai