Trouble
Richard Heydarian
China is facing a regional backlash
Category: Issue 17
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