Bard from Bunyah
Michael Freeman
The poems of the late Les Murray (1938-2019)
Category: Reviews
Direct line
Paul Wedel
Tracing the career of Anand Panyarachun
War fantasies
Thomas A. Bass
An armchair view of the war in Vietnam
Home is everywhere
Rachel Leow
What does it mean to be Chinese?
Brand erosion
Simon Vincent
Has the Singapore Story lost its gloss?
Towards the morning
Pauline Fan
In 1911, Hermann Hesse headed east
Nissan’s Emperor
Peter Tasker
Before Carlos Ghosn there was Ichiro Shioji
Right history
Alexander Wells
A free-market fairy tale for the faithful
Chasing thieves
Victor T King
The heist of the century
Good times are coming
Rohit Inani
India’s fragile young demography is waiting
The deportees
Matt Surrusco
Strangers in their new home
Homage
Nick Freeman
Honouring Professor Martin Stuart-Fox
Palm diary
Robert Cooper
A manuscript from a place no one knew existed
A river’s end
Milton Osborne
Is the Mekong in its last chapter?
Java tale
Jennifer Lindsay
An eminent historian turns to fiction
Cycles
Rupert Winchester
Two new crime novels revel in violence
Comforting truths
Theophilus Kwek
The stories Singaporeans tell themselves
Submission
Sean Gleeson
Information and power in a cloistered Myanmar
The second coming
Marc de Faoite
What the return of Mahathir means for Malaysia
A hero of our time
Richard Heydarian
Duterte increasingly looks like a spent force
Royal mess
David Chandler
Rethinking Cambodia’s golden age
More anarchy
David Eimer
The decline of Western influence in an age of acronyms
What’s in a name?
Laetitia van den Assum
Ethnicity, terminology and identity in Rakhine State
Capitalist outposts
David Scott Mathieson
Fear and loathing on the Thai border
Tea empire
Milton Osborne
How tea fuelled Western colonial endeavour
Emerging power
Endy M. Bayuni
Wresting control of Indonesia’s natural resources
Reality bites
Michael Tatarski
Market movers and shakers in Vietnam
Emergency lives
Zhou Hau Liew
The broken lives of the Malayan Emergency
Karen rebel
Catriona Knapman
The beauty queen who became a rebel
Bride hunters
Leslie Barnes
Vietnamese women who marry Taiwanese men
Don’t be afraid
Theophilus Kwek
Summoning terror in two new novels from Singapore
The lost city
Aedeen Cremin
France’s enduring love affair with Angkor
Like mother, like daughter
Nic Dunlop
How Aung San Suu Kyi’s mother played a pivotal role in her political upbringing
Hot water
Bill Hayton
It should be obvious by now what China wants in the South China Sea
Facing justice
James Jennings
Has the Khmer Rouge Tribunal been a waste of time and money?
Adulation
Carl Vadivella Belle
Mahathir’s right-hand man gets away scot-free in this biography
Faith and facts
Ninus Andarnuswari
Muslim journalists seek the truth as part of their faith
Warcraft
Geoffrey Cain
The war on diplomacy in the US started before Donald Trump
Winging it
Nick J. Freeman
The dangers of development on the cheap
Milton’s Indochine
Philip Coggan
The calm before the end in French Indochina