The peace plane
Connla Stokes
Remembering Bradford Edwards and his peace plane
Category: Profiles
Penang retreat
Marc de Faoite
A bookshop in George Town rides the pandemic
Hong Kong rebel
Elaine Yu
Joshua Wong on the future of the protest movement
Unbroken courage
Olivia Norrmén-Smith
A teacher in Cambodia believes dancing can help overcome trauma
On standby
Peter Yeoh
Covid-19 has put Jeremy Tiang’s play on Arthur Miller’s visit to China on ice
New cause
Brian Chee-Shing Hioe
A kidnapping hasn’t deterred Lam Wing-kee from opening a new bookshop
Chinese history
Michael Vatikiotis
An interview with Wang Gungwu
Cover story
Julia Winterflood
The creative couple behind design outfit Sukutangan
Lunch out
Kelly Falconer
Remembering the Beijing Bookworm
The challenger
Mutita Chuachang
An interview with Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit
The reformer
Greg Earl
B.J. Habibie (1936–2019), Indonesia’s third president
Revival
Lok Man Law
Albert Wan’s Bleak House Books
Local knowledge
Robert Templer
An interview with Sidney Jones
My sister’s story
Pim Wangtechawat
History is thicker than water
Place and time
Louis Raymond
The art of Nguyen Manh Hung
Sign of the times
Oliver Slow
Back to bricks and mortar
Between two worlds
Michael Howard
Pham Duy Khiem embodied two cultures in conflict
Inside China’s dream
Rhys Griffiths
An interview with exiled Chinese novelist Ma Jian
Facing Anwar
Bernice Chauly
Confronting Malaysia’s leader-in-waiting
Storm Bernie
Thomas Beller
Remembering the founder of the Cambodia Daily
Paper tiger
Peter Guest
Tammy Tam, editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post
Upstairs, downstairs
Mark Robinson
Books, age and beauty in west Tokyo
Big on Asia
Kirsten Han
The future is Asian, according to Parag Khanna
Shut out
Jared Ferrie
The Rohingya in limbo in Cox’s Bazar
Slum hip-hop
Pim Wangtechawat
Bangkok’s growing community of aspiring rappers
A writer’s gift
Anjan Sundaram
V.S. Naipaul’s complex legacy
Back to power
Eddin Khoo
An interview with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
Southern Son
Anthony Morreale
The voice of the Mekong Delta
Splice unbound
Peter Guest
The future of Asia’s newsrooms
True believer
Carlyle A. Thayer
Bui Tin (1927–2018) fought against the French, the Americans and, in the end, his Communist comrades
Notes on a scandal
Clare Rewcastle
How Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal was exposed to the world
Bao Ninh’s wars
John Fuller
An interview with the author of The Sorrow of War
Remembering Channthy
Scott Bywater
The musician broke down musical and cultural barriers
King Krishen
Marina Tan
The legacy of Malaysia’s king of theatre
Tales from tomorrow
George Wright
Independent filmmakers are thriving in repressive Cambodia
Literary town
Kate Mayberry
A literary festival with a political message
Humble pies
Joseph Mai
Bourdain returned to Cambodia to atone for his sins
New Order child
Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Eka Kurniawan talks about horror, history and sexuality
Claude Jacques
Aedeen Cremin
Claude Jacques leaves his quiet legacy on Khmer history
Coming out to dance
Erin Handley
Founder of Cambodia’s first all-gay dance troupe discovers freedom in limitation