Work robots
Charles Brophy
What we lose with each technology disruption
Category: Malaysia
Divided selves
Michael Freeman
Language and belonging from the Chinese diaspora
Dropping English
Marc de Faoite
Navigating language in Malaysian fiction
Modesty culture
Dania Kamal Aryf
We need to talk about Malaysia’s modesty culture
Penang retreat
Marc de Faoite
A bookshop in George Town rides the pandemic
Carried away
Pauline Fan
Teaching Paul Celan to speak Malay and teaching Malay to speak Celan
Against Malaysian food
Alicia Izharuddin
Behind the delight of Malaysian food hides a history of exploitation and environmental destruction
Coalition division
Carl Vadivella Belle
Sixty years after independence Malaysia remains a fragmented country
The race ladder
Preeta Samarasan
How to talk about race in peninsular Malaysia
Chinese history
Michael Vatikiotis
An interview with Wang Gungwu
Flying roti
Marc de Faoite
Celebrating the humble roti canai
Yours and mine
Ashvinder Singh
Secrets and lies in colonial Malaya
The lives of others
Pauline Fan
Ho Sok Fong writes from the other side of everything
Ipoh City of Love II
Jack Malik
A poem by Jack Malik
Cursed
Faisal Tehrani
“May your arse be on fire one day, Najib!”
Displaced
James Weitz
Art and assimilation in Borneo
Don’t be afraid
Fahmi Mustaffa
A chance encounter in George Town
Enduring
Aizuddin H. Anuar
An education in Sabah
One of us
Preeta Samarasan
Tash Aw writes about migrant labour
On the island
Marc de Faoite
My island home
Road to success
Vanessa Chan
The secret to my success was my grandfather and his Nissan Langley
One year on
Adeline Chua
Malaysia and the art of Charis Loke
Facing Anwar
Bernice Chauly
Confronting Malaysia’s leader-in-waiting
After the plantations
Carl Vadivella Belle
The political history of Malaysian Indians
Useless
Preeta Samarasan
A new short story from the author of Evening Is the Whole Day
Jack of all fruit
Marc de Faoite
What to do with an unripe jackfruit
Chasing thieves
Victor T King
The heist of the century
The Koro Report
Faisal Tehrani
The dictator with a peculiar condition
The second coming
Marc de Faoite
What the return of Mahathir means for Malaysia
Back to power
Eddin Khoo
An interview with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
Emergency lives
Zhou Hau Liew
The broken lives of the Malayan Emergency
The compulsive reader
Kate Mayberry
A quirky bookstore in downtown Kuala Lumpur
Interviewing Mahathir
Ben Wilson
Interviewing Mahathir’s interviewer
Notes on a scandal
Clare Rewcastle
How Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal was exposed to the world
Adulation
Carl Vadivella Belle
Mahathir’s right-hand man gets away scot-free in this biography
Art and context
Peter Yeoh
T.K. Sabapathy opens up a world of art
King Krishen
Marina Tan
The legacy of Malaysia’s king of theatre
Literary town
Kate Mayberry
A literary festival with a political message
Farewell, sweet sodomy
Ann Lee
A generation of Malaysians have grown up on a rotten law
Four generations
Sharon W.H. Ling
A family scattered by politics