Hell down under
Allan Patience
An indictment of Australia’s cruelty to asylum seekers
It’s coup time
Julio A. Jeldres
The role of the US in the 1970 coup in Cambodia
No easy way out
Tyrell Haberkorn
Examining public and private violence in Thailand
Many parts
Rupert Winchester
Prabda Yoon shifts his absurdist lens to the body
Shameful histories
Clarissa Oon
Jing-Jing Lee’s novel about Singaporean comfort women
Triptych
Patrick Allington
Fiction from Sreedhevi Iyer, Tiffany Tsao and Intan Paramaditha
Paradiso
Richard Oh
Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s much-anticipated debut collection
Bard from Bunyah
Michael Freeman
The poems of the late Les Murray (1938-2019)
Xanadu
David Chandler
Poetry from David Chandler
Useless
Preeta Samarasan
A new short story from the author of Evening Is the Whole Day
Storm Bernie
Thomas Beller
Remembering the founder of the Cambodia Daily
shapes
Rory Harris
Poetry from Rory Harris
Street opera
Emma Larkin
The past is ever-present in Bangkok’s neighbourhoods
Paper tiger
Peter Guest
Tammy Tam, editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post
Jack of all fruit
Marc de Faoite
What to do with an unripe jackfruit
Homing pigeon
Emily Ding
Chinatowns of the world, from Kolkata to Guatemala City
Longyi
Christian Gilberti
Myanmar’s ubiquitous garment of choice
Upstairs, downstairs
Mark Robinson
Books, age and beauty in west Tokyo
War fantasies
Thomas A. Bass
An armchair view of the war in Vietnam
Home is everywhere
Rachel Leow
What does it mean to be Chinese?
Brand erosion
Simon Vincent
Has the Singapore Story lost its gloss?
Big on Asia
Kirsten Han
The future is Asian, according to Parag Khanna
Towards the morning
Pauline Fan
In 1911, Hermann Hesse headed east
Nissan’s Emperor
Peter Tasker
Before Carlos Ghosn there was Ichiro Shioji
Right history
Alexander Wells
A free-market fairy tale for the faithful
Shut out
Jared Ferrie
The Rohingya in limbo in Cox’s Bazar
Don’t die another person’s death, The definition of summer, Saigon on a good day
Phan Nhien Hao
Poetry from Phan Nhien Hao
Chasing thieves
Victor T King
The heist of the century
Good times are coming
Rohit Inani
India’s fragile young demography is waiting
Baloney
Michael Buckley
Bogus health claims are pushing species to the brink
The deportees
Matt Surrusco
Strangers in their new home
Homage
Nick Freeman
Honouring Professor Martin Stuart-Fox
Palm diary
Robert Cooper
A manuscript from a place no one knew existed
Meandering
Melinda Jane — The Poet Mj
Poetry from Melinda Jane — The Poet Mj
A river’s end
Milton Osborne
Is the Mekong in its last chapter?
Java tale
Jennifer Lindsay
An eminent historian turns to fiction
Cycles
Rupert Winchester
Two new crime novels revel in violence
The Koro Report
Faisal Tehrani
The dictator with a peculiar condition
Phuong 19
Connla Stokes
Thriving on pastiche
After the quake
Tom Vater
Kathmandu is booming, but the scars remain