Capitalist outposts
David Scott Mathieson
Fear and loathing on the Thai border
Category: Southeast Asia
Veisse Pharmacy & Brave Girl Street
Richard Milazzo
Poetry from Richard Milazzo
Emerging power
Endy M. Bayuni
Wresting control of Indonesia’s natural resources
Reality bites
Michael Tatarski
Market movers and shakers in Vietnam
Realm of paradise
Kim Cheng Boey
Hungry ghosts and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Emergency lives
Zhou Hau Liew
The broken lives of the Malayan Emergency
Karen rebel
Catriona Knapman
The beauty queen who became a rebel
Bride hunters
Leslie Barnes
Vietnamese women who marry Taiwanese men
Don’t be afraid
Theophilus Kwek
Summoning terror in two new novels from Singapore
From sea to mulberry fields
Son Nam
Translated fiction from southern Vietnam
Southern Son
Anthony Morreale
The voice of the Mekong Delta
Splice unbound
Peter Guest
The future of Asia’s newsrooms
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