Single parent, single child
Dan Koh
Both Oasis of Now and Tomorrow Is a Long Time are meditations on love, time and space.
Category: Notebook
Tales from the Shan hills
Kenneth Barrett
In Maymyo Days: Forgotten Lives of a Burma Hill Station, Stephen Simmons does not dwell on the crusty stragglers of the Raj. He chooses to focus on those who made a lasting contribution of some kind, whether tangible, cultural or political.
Entry from an immigrant’s diary
Thi Gammon
It had been four years since I last returned to Hanoi. I told myself that I’d never loved this city I had wanted to escape. But time may have helped heal old wounds.
A portrait of a lost world
Oliver Green
Zhang Daye’s memoir of the Taiping rebellion captures the lived experience of late Qing China.
A Death in Arakan (Part 3): A journey, not a battle
Edith Mirante
Buried in Burma, Clive Branson’s antifascist legacy is found in his letters and a symphony. Arakan (Rakhine State) where he died has continued to be a killing ground.
A Death in Arakan (Part 2): Tanks and poets
Edith Mirante
Having survived a Spanish prison and borne witness to the Bengal Famine, Communist painter/poet Clive Branson becomes a World War II tank commander. A harrowing battle in Burma looms ahead.
A Death in Arakan (Part 1): Clive Branson, antifascist painter and poet
Edith Mirante
A new essay in three parts by Edith Mirante, author of Burmese Looking Glass, about Clive Branson, a British Communist poet/painter who fought in the Spanish Civil War and was killed in Burma during the Second World War. Part 1 includes anti-colonial India and a love story.
Revolution in Sagaing
Michael Edwards
In Myanmar, many have taken salvation into their own hands.
Morning Runs by Kallang
Mariyam Haider
A friendship forged between an essential and non-essential worker.
The Journey to Disaster
Peter Tasker
Twenty-five years after the death of the great Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune, a re-appraisal of a film that has been unjustly neglected.
End of track
Ollie Arci
A slice of Hanoi life comes to an end
An appreciation
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
The magic of Mekong Review lives on
Laxman and I
Abhishek Mehrotra
The roadside artist and his subject
Voyage home
Seng Savunthara
Davy Chou’s latest film, Return to Seoul
Sculpted time
Sabina Knight
An anthology of Tang poetry
Letter from Ottawa
Shawn Gilarowski
Mekong Review amid the chaos
Meeting Mendeleev
Joshua Wilwohl
The day I met a Russian oligarch
Afghan lives
Kiran Bhat
A story of hope from Afghanistan
The new normal
Rachel Tough
Life goes on in post-lockdown Ho Chi Minh City
Fury and Sorrow
Mark Mordue
Afghan women and the pain of losing of their country
Guardians of the forest
Vo Kieu Bao Uyen
A development project is threatening the ‘lungs’ of Ho Chi Minh City
How to decolonise
Bhakti Shringarpure
A conversation with Priyamvada Gopal
The Hanoi bubble
Lam Le
A tale of two Covid experiences in Vietnam
Dead city
Khai Q. Nguyen
Ho Chi Minh, a city that never sleeps, has fallen silent
Directive 16
Ben Quick
The lockdown order Da Nang has been dreading
Covid chaos
Phil Thornton
Myanmar is facing a health crisis without a functioning government
Impunity reigns
Abby Seiff
A killing remembered in Cambodia
Leaving Afghanistan
Andrew Quilty
After 20 years, America is leaving
The party people
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
When will the Party end?
The long party
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
The secret to a long political life
It’s our party
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
The surprising past and unpredictable future of the Chinese Communist Party
Taiwan’s West Berlin moment
Ming-sho Ho
The international vaccine airlift to save Taiwan
An Arrest in Hong Kong
Abby Seiff
An activist’s detention marks the start of 4 June
Never forget
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
The changing meaning of a massacre
Chinese primacy
Andy Fitch
An interview with Shivshankar Menon
This small town
Bertie Alexander
What Myanmar’s coup looks like far outside the cities
Empty Delhi
Vikram Kapur
Cities are not meant to be empty
Thiep and I
Peter Zinoman
Nguyen Huy Thiep, 1950-2021
My will
Anonymous*
A poem from a protester in Myanmar
Nguyen Huy Thiep
Thomas A. Bass
The writer who redefined Vietnamese literature