Flying roti
Marc de Faoite
Celebrating the humble roti canai
Category: Southeast Asia
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
The reformer
Greg Earl
B.J. Habibie (1936–2019), Indonesia’s third president
War myths
Alexander Wells
A new Australian film misses the mark
The killings
Margaret Scott
Time for a full account of 1965
Local knowledge
Robert Templer
An interview with Sidney Jones
My sister’s story
Pim Wangtechawat
History is thicker than water
Have faith
George Styllis
The great escape from Tham Luang
Tithes that bind
Nick Freeman
Sending money back to Vietnam
Enduring
Aizuddin H. Anuar
An education in Sabah
Spooked
Andrew Selth
The ghosts that haunt Myanmar
One of us
Preeta Samarasan
Tash Aw writes about migrant labour