In my banjar
Febriana Firdaus
In a short time wearing face masks became the norm in Ubud
Category: Southeast Asia
Don’t forget us
Erfan Dana
A plea from a refugee in locked-down Indonesia
Loving critics
Vanessa Lim
In Singapore, too much love for the country is never enough
Salt & Pepper
Connla Stokes
The film Spike Lee should have made
Rise and shine
Peter Yeoh
Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods rolls out the racial cliches
Peanuts of war
Michael Uhl
In between battles, I tended the garden
The silence of 1976
Emma Larkin
Forty-four years later, silence still shrouds the Thammasat student massacre in Bangkok
Against Malaysian food
Alicia Izharuddin
Behind the delight of Malaysian food hides a history of exploitation and environmental destruction
His history
Prumsodun Ok
Another Western account of Cambodian history fails to hit the mark
Coalition division
Carl Vadivella Belle
Sixty years after independence Malaysia remains a fragmented country
This working life
Simon Vincent
A candid look at how hard Singaporeans work just to make ends meet
Scholar and believer
Martin Stuart-Fox
How Thailand and Buddhism changed a scholar’s outlook on life
City of hope
Siti Keo
A new translation of a Cambodian novel brings its history to life
Lao lite
Bryan Thao Worra
Laotians may struggle to recognise themselves in Paul Yoon’s novel
Border crossings
Michael Freeman
A new anthology maps Asia’s identity politics and cultural dislocations
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