Border crossings
Michael Freeman
A new anthology maps Asia’s identity politics and cultural dislocations
Category: Southeast Asia
Rise and fall
Melody Kemp
The Mekong giveth and the Mekong taketh
On standby
Peter Yeoh
Covid-19 has put Jeremy Tiang’s play on Arthur Miller’s visit to China on ice
Carry across
Conner Bouchard-Roberts
Can we still travel in the age of climate change?
Jerryrigged machine
Tilde Acuña
Poetry from Tilde Acuña
Bangkok Days
Pim Wangtechawat
If you grew up in Bangkok, you’re unlikely to notice its bounty of sensory pleasures
Onward, Christian soldier
David Scott Mathieson
Despite their Christian zeal, these missionaries are effective in saving lives
Genocide’s straw man
Matthew Smith
Responding to Benjamin Zawacki’s article
City of light
Sebastian Strangio
Sihanoukville has long had a seamy underbelly
High and dry
Michael Buckley
The Mekong is not a tap
Chinese history
Michael Vatikiotis
An interview with Wang Gungwu
Flying roti
Marc de Faoite
Celebrating the humble roti canai
Humanitarian breakdown
Benjamin Zawacki
How NGOs responded to Myanmar’s genocide
Yours and mine
Ashvinder Singh
Secrets and lies in colonial Malaya
Into Burma
Joseph Woods
Travels in post-democratic Myanmar
Waterland
Peter A. Coclanis
The monsoon has shaped much of South Asia
Magical double
Lara Norgaard
Eka Kurniawan’s new collection of short stories
The lives of others
Pauline Fan
Ho Sok Fong writes from the other side of everything
Little airs
Cedric Van Dijck
The book that killed colonialism
From the burning rabbit hole
Becca Stine
A short story by Becca Stine
Diaspora aporia
Michael Freeman
For poet Monica Sok, the personal is political
Thai Drama
James Weitz
Ethical predicaments in modern Thai fiction
Rukun Tetangga
Jennifer Lindsay
Neighbourhood democracy in Yogyakarta
Cover story
Julia Winterflood
The creative couple behind design outfit Sukutangan
Ipoh City of Love II
Jack Malik
A poem by Jack Malik
Last show
David Scott Mathieson
An ode to Thailand’s lost movie theatres
To Mandalay
San Lin Tun
Some would prefer to go to Mandalay by plane, boat or bus, but I chose to go by train, like Paul Theroux
Go green in Hanoi
Ben Tran
On the beaten track in Southeast Asia’s most polluted city
Nguyen Ky and the singer
Pham Duy Khiem
A short story by Pham Duy Khiem, translated by Harry Aveling
The challenger
Mutita Chuachang
An interview with Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit
Cursed
Faisal Tehrani
“May your arse be on fire one day, Najib!”
Loss and chance
Michael Vatikiotis
The Lisu in China, Myanmar and Thailand
The gadfly
Sean Gleeson
Michael Vickery’s flawed history
Unthink
Joe Freeman
Meditation and its discontents
Displaced
James Weitz
Art and assimilation in Borneo
Dear TC
Andrew Lam
A short story by Andrew Lam
Marginal
Paul Arthur
Nha Thuyen’s essays on Vietnamese poetry
Small town romance
Robert Yeo
Inspired by Yin C.H.
On the fence
Theophilus Kwek
Singapore’s great divide
Don’t be afraid
Fahmi Mustaffa
A chance encounter in George Town