Poetry
Ocean Vuong, David Chandler
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region
Category: Issue 2
Death or freedom
Sebastian Strangio
Myanmar fell apart as soon as it became independent
Duras, mother and Cambodia
Penny Edwards
The life and work of Marguerite Duras
Defying Big Brother
Kenneth Wong
I came across a Winston Smith, a clerk who erased “unpersons”
Victor’s justice
Minh Bui Jones
The international defence counsel-cum-Khmer Rouge fellow traveller
Carry on empire
Simon Winchester
All empires inevitably fade, including France’s in Southeast Asia
Cambodia’s lost literary life
George Chigas
Cambodia’s first Khmer-language literary journal
This old house
Kevin Doyle
Since this house was built, Cambodia’s name has changed half a dozen times
Rituals and religion
Paul Fuller
The difference between lived Buddhism and Buddhism of popular imagination
Lost ground
Chris Taylor
Nostalgia, destruction and unplanned reconstruction
Wayne’s wat
Jeff Kisseloff
Decades after Vietnam, Wayne Matthysse discovered why he was still alive
Hidden history
Luke Hunt
Steven Boswell talks about his book King Norodom’s Head
Annamite journeys
Wayne McCallum
Where peoples, plants and animals are found nowhere else
Chasing the past
Rajan Venkataraman
The Last Reel and A Tomb for Khun Srun, for all their differences, share striking parallels
Dreamworld
Rupert Winchester
A huge step forward for Beijing-based Hong Kong novelist Chan Koonchung
Sweet humdrum days
Connla Stokes
Hanoi at the dawn of the new millennium