Shameful histories
Clarissa Oon
Jing-Jing Lee’s novel about Singaporean comfort women
Category: Southeast Asia
Triptych
Patrick Allington
Fiction from Sreedhevi Iyer, Tiffany Tsao and Intan Paramaditha
Paradiso
Richard Oh
Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s much-anticipated debut collection
Useless
Preeta Samarasan
A new short story from the author of Evening Is the Whole Day
Storm Bernie
Thomas Beller
Remembering the founder of the Cambodia Daily
Street opera
Emma Larkin
The past is ever-present in Bangkok’s neighbourhoods
Jack of all fruit
Marc de Faoite
What to do with an unripe jackfruit
Longyi
Christian Gilberti
Myanmar’s ubiquitous garment of choice
Quiet cruelties
Preeta Samarasan
Moral standards should not depend on public opinion
Back to democracy
Tyrell Haberkorn
Five years after the coup, Thais go to the polls
Mixed model
Tran Le Thuy
Be wary of Vietnam’s hybrid economic model
Anti-university
Thongchai Winichakul
Thai universities are no longer places of learning
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?
Big on Asia
Kirsten Han
The future is Asian, according to Parag Khanna
Towards the morning
Pauline Fan
In 1911, Hermann Hesse headed east
Shut out
Jared Ferrie
The Rohingya in limbo in Cox’s Bazar
Don’t die another person’s death, The definition of summer, Saigon on a good day
Phan Nhien Hao
Poetry from Phan Nhien Hao
Chasing thieves
Victor T King
The heist of the century
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
Java tale
Jennifer Lindsay
An eminent historian turns to fiction
Cycles
Rupert Winchester
Two new crime novels revel in violence
The Koro Report
Faisal Tehrani
The dictator with a peculiar condition
Phuong 19
Connla Stokes
Thriving on pastiche
Slum hip-hop
Pim Wangtechawat
Bangkok’s growing community of aspiring rappers
In the POST
Kate Walton
Jakarta’s unplanned bookshop and publishing house
Comforting truths
Theophilus Kwek
The stories Singaporeans tell themselves
Wall of sound
Cuong Pham
The multilingual, multicultural beats of Vietnamese musician Linh Ha
Incomplete decolonisation
Prabhakar Singh
The curious case of Chagos
Submission
Sean Gleeson
Information and power in a cloistered Myanmar
The second coming
Marc de Faoite
What the return of Mahathir means for Malaysia
Back to power
Eddin Khoo
An interview with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
Down and alone
Will Nguyen
An American protester in Ho Chi Minh City
A hero of our time
Richard Heydarian
Duterte increasingly looks like a spent force
Royal mess
David Chandler
Rethinking Cambodia’s golden age
What’s in a name?
Laetitia van den Assum
Ethnicity, terminology and identity in Rakhine State