Home sweet hawker
Yishu Zhou
The taste of home
Category: Southeast Asia
Ghost labour
Marco Ferrarese
Malaysia’s unrecognised migrant workers
Under the circumstance
Shih-Li Kow
A short story by Shih-Li Kow
So Cambodia
Patrick Allington
Anthony Veasna So’s posthumous debut
The missing half
Peter Zinoman
The forgotten stories from Vietnam’s south
In your face
James Yu
Thai expat literature is littered with bad behaviour
Potato eater
Tse Wei
A Singaporean banquet
My home canal
Anjan Sundaram
The sounds and smells of Phnom Penh
Coming through
Louis Raymond
A profile of Franco-Vietnamese artist Bao Vuong
In transit
Farah Abdessamad
When Cambodia opened up
Ways of writing
Emily Ding
The trouble with travel writing
A local icon
Marc de Faoite
A towel for all times
Marking time
Sean Chadwell
A bookshop waits for its customers
Covid chaos
Phil Thornton
Myanmar is facing a health crisis without a functioning government
Impunity reigns
Abby Seiff
A killing remembered in Cambodia
K Za Win
Poetry by the late K Za Win
Leaving Myanmar
Ben Dunant
As things fall apart, a foreign journalist is forced to pack his bags
Prelude to a coup
Kenneth Wong
The preconditions of the coup in Myanmar were there
Fearless
Abby Seiff
Myanmar protest leader Ei Thinzar Maung speaks while in hiding
Our lost year
Pauline Fan
Democracy, the virus, and a missing year in Malaysia
A royal pain
Puangchon Unchanam
Politics and monarchy in Thailand
The occupation
Peter A. Coclanis
Japan’s occupation of Southeast Asia
The writer retires
Peter Zinoman
How Nguyen Huy Thiep changed contemporary Vietnamese literature
Bard of the Viets
Thomas A. Bass
A review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed
Behind the blue fence
Connla Stokes
A quarantine, and food, in Ho Chi Minh City
Be Filipino
Christopher Cañete Rodriguez Kelly
Contemporary fiction from the Philippines
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