Meet Kill
Sebastian Strangio
When Kem Ley’s murderer was asked for his name, he offered a chilling sobriquet: Meet Kill.
Category: Issue 4
Poetry
Monica Sok, Ravi Shankar
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region.
Damming the Mekong
Michael Buckley
Vietnam lies at the wrong end of the Mekong River.
Out of the box
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Vietnamese-American literature fulfills the function of ethnic writing
Truth to power
Penny Edwards
You Need to Apologise to the People is in Burmese, written by a Burmese, about Burmese people
Derelict beauty
Cristina Maria Chiorean
The soul of Yangon reposes in buildings built by British, Indian and Chinese settler-traders
One Chinese
Chris Taylor
‘Do you speak Chinese?’ is akin to asking ‘Do you speak Romance?’
Benedict Anderson
John Sidel
Benedict Anderson left a prodigious legacy for Southeast Asian studies
The Viet bride
Trang Ha
I would forever remember Dan’s silence. Silently loving me. Silent before my family’s insults and dissuasion.
Fish need water
Thaveeporn Vasavakul
It will take fifty years to restore the marine ecosystem of Vietnam’s central coast
The Bangkok plot
Luke Young
William J. Rust sheds new light on postwar Cambodia
Regeneration
George Chigas
A new generation of Cambodian writers are given voice in English in Modern Literature of Cambodia
Cambodian vérité
Daniel Mattes
The sixty-ninth Cannes Film Festival premiered Cambodian director Davy Chou’s first feature film, Diamond Island.
Songs of survival
David Hutt
‘”I survived the Khmer Rouge, I survived the Soviet Union, and I survived cancer,” says Cambodian composer Him Sophy
Meatamorphosis
Rupert Winchester
Han Kang’s The Vegetarian is a short, dark, depressing but brilliant novel
Aquarium life
Wayne McCallum
Intrigue, mystery, subterfuge, robbery and murder — think an exotic fish
Sok sa bai
Nguyen Qui Duc
A trip down the Mekong River becomes surreal
Chat Tomuk
Mekong Review
The long-awaited Heng Samrin autobiography