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
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