Be Filipino
Christopher Cañete Rodriguez Kelly
Contemporary fiction from the Philippines
Category: Southeast Asia
Riding it out
Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh
Edmund Wee and Epigram Books
Rocking the burbs
Ken Kwek
A history of rock ’n’ roll in Singapore
Teaching days
Stephen Gregory
A teacher reflects on life in Brunei
Thai strips
Benjamin Tausig
A short history of Thai comics
Boxed-in
Lam Le
Time slips away in a Hanoi bookstore
Nguyen Huy Thiep
Thomas A. Bass
The writer who redefined Vietnamese literature
Covering a coup
Phil Thornton
As violence mounts, journalists in Myanmar face growing risks
Myanmar falling
Michael Breen and Anne Décobert
The conditions for Myanmar’s coup were systemically ensured
Bittersweet
Lam Le
Thanks to the pandemic, Tet in Vietnam won’t be quite the same this year
Elephants in jars
Bertie Alexander
Growing up a troublemaker in Myanmar
Kissinger and Ellsberg in Vietnam
Thomas A. Bass
How a war hawk became the biggest whistleblower of his time
Call me Ant
Sunisa Manning
Remembering Anthony Veasna So
Rizal’s revolutionaries
Richard Heydarian
The making of Asia’s freedom fighters
Into the labyrinth
David Scott Mathieson
The making of Myanmar’s Rohingya horrors
Dateline Vietnam
Martin Stuart-Fox
Three female journalists shaped how the Vietnam War was understood
Work robots
Charles Brophy
What we lose with each technology disruption
Where they belong
Farah Abdessamad
Looting—and returning—Southeast Asia’s treasures
‘Phone booth’, ‘Shops’, ‘Restaurant’, ‘Factory’, ‘Eggs’, and ‘Huts’
Maw Shein Win
Poetry from Maw Shein Win
Teochew opera
Ken Kwek
A short story by Ken Kwek
Political terror
Tyrell Haberkorn
A novel takes on the Thammasat massacre
Jakarta stories
Jennifer Lindsay
Ten Indonesian authors capture a sense of place
Divided selves
Michael Freeman
Language and belonging from the Chinese diaspora
Tiếng đập cánh từ đâu
Nhã Thuyên
‘Where are the wings beating from’
Language is power
Violet Cho
The Burmanisation of language in Myanmar
Dropping English
Marc de Faoite
Navigating language in Malaysian fiction
Childhood snacks
Tse Wei Lim
Recalling the hawker stalls of yesteryear
More of the same
Phil Thornton
A military coup in Myanmar
A bright light
Elizabeth Becker
A journalism era closes with the death of Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright Shining Lie
Gutting the press
Thomas A. Bass
Vietnam imprisons more journalists
Vietnam’s pathfinder
K.W. Taylor
Vietnamese studies loses a pioneer
Cat and mouse
Thomas A. Bass
Pham Doan Trang goes to prison
Thailand’s future
Chris Baker
The spectre of the Thammasat massacre hangs over the current protest in Thailand
The Tonle Sap
Abby Seiff
The Tonle Sap, a tributary of the Mekong, is dying
Osborneland
Paul French
Alienated souls in exotic locations—welcome to Osborneland
The provocateur
Michael Vatikiotis
Michael Vatikiotis talks to Kishore Mahbubani about his new book, Has China Won?
Modesty culture
Dania Kamal Aryf
We need to talk about Malaysia’s modesty culture
Losing Hindustan
Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh
When did the reimagination of Hindustan begin?
The Jarai
Martin Stuart-Fox
How did the Jarai survive colonialism, nationalism, even the Khmer Rouge?
Arhats in Clementi
Michael Freeman
A latter-day Baudelaire rambling the streets of Singapore