Gentle giants
Wayne McCallum
Where to for the Asian elephant?
Category: Reviews
Too late
Robert Templer
A letter from a ruined planet
Sons of empire
Kam Raslan
Raffles, Farquhar and Singapore’s bicentennial
The great survivor
Nayan Chanda
The nine lives of Heng Samrin
Artificial power
Geoffrey Cain
Has our relationship with technology reached a turning point?
After the plantations
Carl Vadivella Belle
The political history of Malaysian Indians
Striking resistance
Joe Buckley
Garment workers and labour organisation in Vietnam
Red noise
Chris Baker
Sound and division in Thailand
Dam fever
Tom Fawthrop
The myth of sustainable hydropower
Hell down under
Allan Patience
An indictment of Australia’s cruelty to asylum seekers
No easy way out
Tyrell Haberkorn
Examining public and private violence in Thailand
Many parts
Rupert Winchester
Prabda Yoon shifts his absurdist lens to the body
Shameful histories
Clarissa Oon
Jing-Jing Lee’s novel about Singaporean comfort women
Triptych
Patrick Allington
Fiction from Sreedhevi Iyer, Tiffany Tsao and Intan Paramaditha
Paradiso
Richard Oh
Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s much-anticipated debut collection
Bard from Bunyah
Michael Freeman
The poems of the late Les Murray (1938-2019)
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