High on pop
Sudipto Sanyal
The making of India’s dreampop classic
Category: Reviews
Afghan lives
Kiran Bhat
A story of hope from Afghanistan
Why we are here
Emma Larkin
Voices of resistance from Myanmar after the coup
Keep adding oil
Yan Lee
How overseas Hongkongers are maintaining the fight
Potemkin state
Jolene Tan
A history of modern Singapore
Path to power
Ben Bland
An exploration of Suharto’s youth
Coal r us
Robert Templer
What if Australia took the Nordic model?
Never forget
Michael Vatikiotis
Family histories explore generational dislocation
Twin rivers
Jack Weatherford
An exploration of waterways in China and Russia
Mother’s boy
Mark Robinson
Jun’ichiro Tanizaki’s stories in English, for the first time
Seoul affairs
Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
Sang Young Park’s novel transcends its elements
Extraditions
Michael Freeman
A review of Laura Jane Lee’s new poetry
Burning memory
David Hopkins
A documentary remembers the firebombing of Tokyo
Serve them up
Tse Wei
On the origins of Chinese food in America
Fear and greed
Michael Reilly
Australia changes its mind on China
Standing up
Colin Meyn
One-party state in Cambodian politics
Dark jester
Richard Heydarian
A tragic comedy in the Philippines
Forever wars
David Ekbladh
American hegemony and the limits of militarism
Spreading oil
Thomas A. Bass
The deciding end of French colonial rule in Indochina
Refugees
Trinh Q. Truong
How the Vietnamese plight defied the pretence of humanitarian neutrality
All the king’s men
Wasana Wongsurawat
The origins of Thai conservatism in the era of King Bhumibol
Low expectations
Pim Wangtechawat
Children of Thailand’s urban poor speak for themselves
Sacrifice
Faustina Johnson
An unconventional childhood rebalances the universe
Bangkok fields
Tyrell Haberkorn
Excess and dispossession frame a tragedy in Thailand
For the people
Ysabelle Cheung
Translating the unspoken words of Hong Kong’s heart
Baroque ’n’ roll
Michael Freeman
Impermanence as a permanent condition
The building
Joseph Mai
Out with old, in with the new in Cambodia
Bird business
Wayne McCallum
Bird watching in the Mekong
Technology and terror
Robert Templer
How China uses surveillance technology to terrorise the Uyghurs
Life of the party
Yuan Zhu
The forgotten lives of the Chinese Communist Party
The cursed generation
Jessie Lau
Memoirs of a lost Hong Kong
Ground zero
Michael Reilly
The origins of the coronavirus pandemic
Save our skins
Hong Kong Nguyen
Race and beauty in Vietnam
Ghost labour
Marco Ferrarese
Malaysia’s unrecognised migrant workers
So Cambodia
Patrick Allington
Anthony Veasna So’s posthumous debut
Freedom for some
Sudipto Sanyal
Freedom is still an ideal for many
The missing half
Peter Zinoman
The forgotten stories from Vietnam’s south
The Ogura hundred
Michael Freeman
A new translation of Japan’s seminal poetry collection
In transit
Farah Abdessamad
When Cambodia opened up
Ways of writing
Emily Ding
The trouble with travel writing