State rebels
Liam C Kelley
The Chinese outlaws recruited by the Vietnamese Nguyen Dynasty to fight against the French.
Poetry
Soe Nay Lynn, Amy Doffegnies
“Soe Nay Lynn”, “Vignette” “Pay Pay* at Phoe Htoo Teashop” & “The sky and its two stars”
Milieu
David Payne
Nineteen young Vietnamese writers are showcased in a new collection of short stories.
On the street
Neil Moody
What is more important in street food – the food or the street?
Dressing up stories
Max Crosbie-Jones
A profile of Thai artist Jakkai Siributr
Pinball wizardy
Rupert Winchester
The multigenerational family saga comes of age in Asia
Poetry
Ko Ko Thett, Maw Shein Win, Steve Gilmartin
“after the lie of art” & “i hate programming without free will”
Uncle Ho’s retreat
Michael Tatarski
Where Ho Chi Minh founded the Communist movement.
Death in Yangon
Sean Gleeson
A slow Sunday afternoon in Yangon is shattered by the sound of gunshots.
Poetry
Ocean Vuong, David Chandler
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region
The Rohingya
Julia Wallace
The long struggle for citizenship
Power and democracy
Sebastian Strangio
Hun Sen and his party have won every election since 1998
The stubborn writer
Khai Q Nguyen
Few people outside of Vietnam have heard of Nguyen Binh Phuong
The secret war
Martin Stuart-Fox
CIA involvement in Laos redefined the organisation.
Cronies Inc.
Nick Freeman
When Aung San Suu Kyi stopped supporting US sanctions against Myanmar, it changed everything.
Tangled up in red
Chris Taylor
The US love affair with China is marked by cycles of exuberance and deflationary despair.
Borderlands
Vu Duc Liem
The true history of the Cambodian-Vietnamese border.
Unfinished business
Erik W. Davis
Cambodian politics are fundamentally nationalist.
About face
Michael Freeman
When literary critic William Empson turned his attention to Buddhist iconography
Yul and I
Emma Larkin
How Yul Brynner became a part of the Thai myth.
Made in Cambodia
Robert Horne
As Malee jumped down from the tuk-tuk she felt the clamour all around her …
Poetry
Maung Sein Win (Padigon), Scott Bywater, Ngyuen Binh Phuong, Bunkong Tuon, Chath Piersath
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region.
Dark mess
Alasdair Richards
Noir is a genre of fiction that delivers so little
Sopheap rises
Reaksmey Yean
Pich Sopheap is Cambodia’s most celebrated contemporary artist.
Images of war
Oslo Davis
Such A Lovely Little War brings the Vietnam War to new audiences.
Tigerman
Wayne McCallum
Sooyong Park has dedicated much of his life to filming the Siberian tiger
Chat Tomuk
Chat Tomuk
Jaipur’s emergence as a literary hub.
I say Poona
Easterine Kire
Where it all started for the writer.
Who is Duch?
Antonia D. Bryan
Duch ran a well-oiled machine. He processed people, personally approving every confession.
The second Panglong trap
David Eimer
In Myanmar’s borderland conflict zones, promises of peace are wearily familiar
Attitude adjustment
Nic Dunlop
Thailand once had the freest press in Southeast Asia.
Facework
Emma Larkin
How power in Thailand really works
Poetry
Krysada Panusith Phounsiri, Maung Philar, Khai Q Nguyen
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region.
The great leap
Peter Zinoman
Goscha’s Vietnam puts Vietnamese at the centre of their own history.
Agent Monsanto
Mick Grant
Fifty years after the spraying of Monsanto’s Agent Orange in Vietnam.
Wild pigs cannot enter
Giulio Ongaro
The Akha people of Laos once maintained a condition of statelessness.
Ocean of history
John Burgess
A new study questions whether Australian Aborigines were isolated after their arrival 40,000 years ago.
Refugee pain
Rupert Winchester
The Refugee is bold, bright and beautiful.
Threadbare
Gill Green
Enthusiasts will appreciate Devare’s book, but not experts in the field
Standing up to China
Nicholas Chapman
Friction is nothing new in Vietnam–China relations