Unfinished business
Erik W. Davis
Cambodian politics are fundamentally nationalist.
Category: Southeast Asia
About face
Michael Freeman
When literary critic William Empson turned his attention to Buddhist iconography
Yul and I
Emma Larkin
How Yul Brynner became a part of the Thai myth.
Made in Cambodia
Robert Horne
As Malee jumped down from the tuk-tuk she felt the clamour all around her …
Dark mess
Alasdair Richards
Noir is a genre of fiction that delivers so little
Sopheap rises
Reaksmey Yean
Pich Sopheap is Cambodia’s most celebrated contemporary artist.
Images of war
Oslo Davis
Such A Lovely Little War brings the Vietnam War to new audiences.
Plus-que-parfait
Sander Smits
Sander Smits captures remnants and leftovers of Vietnam’s past
Café 129
Michael L. Gray
The two of us arrived at this tiny corner of Hanoi at the exact same time
Một nhà văn lì lợm
Khai Q. Nguyen
Trò chuyện với Nguyễn Bình Phương
Ghost stories
Robert Horne
Spirit belief is still prevalent among young Cambodians
Chinatown
Yvan Cohen
Photographer Yvan Cohen in Bangkok’s disappearing Chinatown
Traces
Melanie Gritzka del Villar
Melanie Gritzka Del Villar’s unique driftwood art
Forever Red
Pim Wangtechawat
Passion for the English Premier League runs deep in Thailand
Who is Duch?
Antonia D. Bryan
Duch ran a well-oiled machine. He processed people, personally approving every confession.
The second Panglong trap
David Eimer
In Myanmar’s borderland conflict zones, promises of peace are wearily familiar
Attitude adjustment
Nic Dunlop
Thailand once had the freest press in Southeast Asia.
Facework
Emma Larkin
How power in Thailand really works
Poetry
Krysada Panusith Phounsiri, Maung Philar, Khai Q Nguyen
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region.
The great leap
Peter Zinoman
Goscha’s Vietnam puts Vietnamese at the centre of their own history.
Agent Monsanto
Mick Grant
Fifty years after the spraying of Monsanto’s Agent Orange in Vietnam.
Wild pigs cannot enter
Giulio Ongaro
The Akha people of Laos once maintained a condition of statelessness.
Refugee pain
Rupert Winchester
The Refugee is bold, bright and beautiful.
Threadbare
Gill Green
Enthusiasts will appreciate Devare’s book, but not experts in the field
Standing up to China
Nicholas Chapman
Friction is nothing new in Vietnam–China relations
Smuggling the bodacious
Hans van Leeuwen
We sit looking at the screen. “PM lauds communist youth” looks back at us
Khmer new wave
Stefanie Sellon
The golden age of Cambodian architecture
Sre Ambel
Jeff Kisseloff
For McCallum, it wasn’t enough just to write about the environment
Saving the garden
David Hutt
Dr Siri meets solemn and dogmatic cadres in Laos
It ain’t pho
Connla Stokes
My father’s improvised experiments with Vietnamese cuisine were declared a success
Guardian of Yangon
Poppy McPherson
Thant Myint-U writes “with an eye to what the past might say about the present”
Dancing with Perséphone
Larry Strange
Khmer dance was once seen as purely decorative
Waiting for the smoke to clear
Tillman Miller
Because time is a loose concept in Laos, sometimes an hour or two of dinner would pass before any stories recommenced.
Chat Tomuk
Mekong Review
The passing of Thailand’s revered king has unleashed a torrent of eulogies.
Meet Kill
Sebastian Strangio
When Kem Ley’s murderer was asked for his name, he offered a chilling sobriquet: Meet Kill.
Damming the Mekong
Michael Buckley
Vietnam lies at the wrong end of the Mekong River.
Out of the box
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Vietnamese-American literature fulfills the function of ethnic writing
Truth to power
Penny Edwards
You Need to Apologise to the People is in Burmese, written by a Burmese, about Burmese people
Derelict beauty
Cristina Maria Chiorean
The soul of Yangon reposes in buildings built by British, Indian and Chinese settler-traders
Benedict Anderson
John Sidel
Benedict Anderson left a prodigious legacy for Southeast Asian studies