A family’s love language
Wong Ee Xin
In a family that struggles to express affection physically or verbally, food has become a means of demonstrating connection, care, and a deep love.
In a family that struggles to express affection physically or verbally, food has become a means of demonstrating connection, care, and a deep love.
Remembrance of indigenous histories and erasure is painful. But to remember politically and ethically, despite the ways memory has been dismissed or commodified, is to be hopeful and future-focused. Nabilah Husna on the power of indigenous memory.
Due to an outward appearance of bloodless harmony, the experience of racism in Singapore is akin to background noise that only minorities can hear. A review of Brown Is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore, edited by Kristian-Marc James Paul, Mysara Aljaru and Myle Yan Tay.
A short story by Kathrina Mohd Daud.
Written in the late 1950s while Mochtar Lubis was under house arrest, Twilight in Jakarta was smuggled overseas, translated by Clarie Holt, and published by Hutchinson & Co in 1963. A revised version by John McGlynn was published by the Lontar Foundation in 2014.
Amid the bloody war on drugs and the Covid-19 pandemic, political cartoonists in the Philippines, like Kevin Raymundo and Andoy Edoria, have produced hard-hitting work that has struck a chord with their fellow Filipinos.
For those curious about Indonesian music, Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry (1955-69) is a fascinating portrait of a precarious young country trying to protect its cultural identity while opening itself to the world.
A profile of Kenny Chan, who worked at Books Kinokuniya from 2001 to 2019. Today, he continues to roam the aisles of the flagship Singapore store, and talks to Toh Ee Ming about his enduring love of reading.
A short story by Azrin Fauzi, translated from Malay to English by Pauline Fan.
In Myanmar, many have taken salvation into their own hands.
An interview with Bilahari Kausikan
Truth and reflection at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Alternative lifestyles under the spotlight in Singapore
Civil war in Myanmar is killing thousands of civilians
Where does the national language of Cambodia come from?
A new book examines the challenges facing Cambodia’s ‘Great Lake’
Sufi poet Zareefa Jan spins words in Kashmir
The women of the Vietnamese national weightlifting team overcoming cultural norms
Indonesia in the 1960s, through the prism of post-colonialism
Buddhist amulets as essential expressions of Buddhist religiosity
Undocumented and displaced communities in Malaysia
A poem from Johanna Carissa Fernandez.
The history of maritime Southeast Asia
A slice of Hanoi life comes to an end
Davy Chou’s latest film, Return to Seoul
The disgraced Filipino family is back in charge
Manila: from pearl to weed
The cinema of Rithy Panh
From stopping wars to fighting climate change
A European liberal went to Vietnam
How war lives on in Laos
America’s disillusionment with Myanmar
A short story by Ruhaini Matdarin
There is only one place to eat this
A Czech poet in Java in the 1920s
The poetry of being somewhere else
Poetry from Ralph Fonte
Vale Linda Lê
Turning the prince’s story into music
The day I met a Russian oligarch