More than just memory
Patrick Deer
Viet Thanh Nguyen tests the limits of fiction
Category: Reviews
The king still never smiles
Nicholas Farrelly
The enigma of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej
The Lady’s not for turning
David Eimer
Who needs friends when a whole country is in love with you?
Beauty scar
Pam Allen
Magical realism meets gritty realism
Sorrow in a shopping mall
Chris Taylor
The word “miracle” is bandied about far too much in the context of China
Lao hit ball
Robert Cooper
One sport has played a surprising role in defining Laos and the Lao — tikhi
The real thing
Connla Stokes
The undefinable, addictive nature of Vietnamese food
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”
Rituals and religion
Paul Fuller
The difference between lived Buddhism and Buddhism of popular imagination
Wayne’s wat
Jeff Kisseloff
Decades after Vietnam, Wayne Matthysse discovered why he was still alive
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
Marginal Countries
Mario Del Pero
A long apology for Kissinger’s crimes
Mad, bad and French
Michelle Vachon
Michelle Vachon explores the “bad Frenchmen” of Indochina
Death railway
Alasdair Richards
The railway line that cost as many as 100,000 lives