Splice unbound
Peter Guest
The future of Asia’s newsrooms
Category: Southeast Asia
Dark snaps
Nic Dunlop
Having fun on the Death Railway
The lost city
Aedeen Cremin
France’s enduring love affair with Angkor
Painting by subtraction
James Jennings
The evolution and appeal of Vietnamese lacquer paintings
Wandering souls
Joseph Mai
Rithy Panh buries the ghosts of the Killing Fields
The compulsive reader
Kate Mayberry
A quirky bookstore in downtown Kuala Lumpur
Tsunami, Family photoshoot & Spooky action at a distance
Maung Day
Poetry from Maung Day
Champa gems
William B. Noseworthy
Finally, a book to showcase the best of Cham art
Interviewing Mahathir
Ben Wilson
Interviewing Mahathir’s interviewer
Rich experience
Pim Wangtechawat
Watching others enjoying Crazy Rich Asians was as enjoyable as watching the film itself
True believer
Carlyle A. Thayer
Bui Tin (1927–2018) fought against the French, the Americans and, in the end, his Communist comrades
Hanoi after the war
John Ramsden
The Vietnam of 1981 was a very different place
Notes on a scandal
Clare Rewcastle
How Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal was exposed to the world
Like mother, like daughter
Nic Dunlop
How Aung San Suu Kyi’s mother played a pivotal role in her political upbringing
Bao Ninh’s wars
John Fuller
An interview with the author of The Sorrow of War
Street spirit
Abby Seiff
Political protests, once common in Phnom Penh, have all but disappeared
Facing justice
James Jennings
Has the Khmer Rouge Tribunal been a waste of time and money?
The clock’s wink
Catriona Knapman
Poetry from Catriona Knapman
Adulation
Carl Vadivella Belle
Mahathir’s right-hand man gets away scot-free in this biography
Faith and facts
Ninus Andarnuswari
Muslim journalists seek the truth as part of their faith
Milton’s Indochine
Philip Coggan
The calm before the end in French Indochina
Wounded queen
Michael Freeman
Hieu Minh Nguyen anatomises the wounds and scars of his identity
Capturing Hanoi
Christopher Goscha
Hanoi before capitalism
One day, there is Mother and Radian
Avianti Armand
A short story from Avianti Armand
‘Trail’ & ‘Mane of sadness’
Acep Zamzam Noor
Poetry from Acep Zamzam Noor
Keys to chaos
Quinn Libson
A hotel in Phnom Penh unlocks a violent past
Escape
Rupert Winchester
Kirsten Chen leads the SingLit charge
Underground
David Scott Mathieson
Myanmar’s civil war on canvas
Art and context
Peter Yeoh
T.K. Sabapathy opens up a world of art
Remembering Channthy
Scott Bywater
The musician broke down musical and cultural barriers
King Krishen
Marina Tan
The legacy of Malaysia’s king of theatre
Tales from tomorrow
George Wright
Independent filmmakers are thriving in repressive Cambodia
Literary town
Kate Mayberry
A literary festival with a political message
Humble pies
Joseph Mai
Bourdain returned to Cambodia to atone for his sins
Kafka in Saigon
Connla Stokes
A bookshop in Ho Chi Minh City
Covering Up Violence
Pim Wangtechawat
The #DontTellMeHowDress exhibition challenges Thai attitudes to gender violence.
Contami-Nation
Parthiban Muniandy
The impurity of blended cultures is what makes Malaysian food — and society — unique.
Fried and fabulous
Pim Wangtechawat
Aharn sin kid— “the meal we fall back on when we can’t think of anything else to eat.”
Street artistry
John Ramsden
Bùi Xuân Phái, perhaps the artist of his generation, struggled for acceptance and paint in Vietnam.
Waiting for Kim
Peter Guest
When Kim Jong-un met Donald Trump in Singapore