Home quarantine
Khai Q. Nguyen
Memories are let loose in a Ho Chi Minh City quarantine facility
Category: Southeast Asia
The peace plane
Connla Stokes
Remembering Bradford Edwards and his peace plane
Home truths
Chath pierSath
Looking for love and home in Vietnam
Penang retreat
Marc de Faoite
A bookshop in George Town rides the pandemic
Writing home
Michael Freeman
From the American diaspora to homeland Vietnam
White clouds flying
Bao Ninh
A short story by the author of The Sorrow of War
Fallen history
Bryony Lau
In the Philippines, fiction has the power to challenge the official version of history
Jakarta is coming
Lara Norgaard
How a US-sponsored coup in Indonesia was replicated in Brazil
Carried away
Pauline Fan
Teaching Paul Celan to speak Malay and teaching Malay to speak Celan
Homeless and stateless
Helen Jarvis
A Rohingya on the run
Personal history
Louis Raymond
Writing history and searching for identity make bad company
Luck out
David Payne
Stories of chance and consequences inside and outside today’s Vietnam
Control nation
Theophilus Kwek
A critical look at Singaporean society stands the test of time
Shake in our sleep
Michael Freeman
Theophilus Kwek’s poetry probes the complexities of Singapore’s history
Ganesha at large
Rupert Arrowsmith
The poet Jennifer Mackenzie on her engagement with Indonesian literature and art
In my banjar
Febriana Firdaus
In a short time wearing face masks became the norm in Ubud
Don’t forget us
Erfan Dana
A plea from a refugee in locked-down Indonesia
Loving critics
Vanessa Lim
In Singapore, too much love for the country is never enough
Salt & Pepper
Connla Stokes
The film Spike Lee should have made
Rise and shine
Peter Yeoh
Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods rolls out the racial cliches
Peanuts of war
Michael Uhl
In between battles, I tended the garden
The silence of 1976
Emma Larkin
Forty-four years later, silence still shrouds the Thammasat student massacre in Bangkok
Against Malaysian food
Alicia Izharuddin
Behind the delight of Malaysian food hides a history of exploitation and environmental destruction
His history
Prumsodun Ok
Another Western account of Cambodian history fails to hit the mark
Coalition division
Carl Vadivella Belle
Sixty years after independence Malaysia remains a fragmented country
This working life
Simon Vincent
A candid look at how hard Singaporeans work just to make ends meet
Scholar and believer
Martin Stuart-Fox
How Thailand and Buddhism changed a scholar’s outlook on life
City of hope
Siti Keo
A new translation of a Cambodian novel brings its history to life
Lao lite
Bryan Thao Worra
Laotians may struggle to recognise themselves in Paul Yoon’s novel
Border crossings
Michael Freeman
A new anthology maps Asia’s identity politics and cultural dislocations
Rise and fall
Melody Kemp
The Mekong giveth and the Mekong taketh
On standby
Peter Yeoh
Covid-19 has put Jeremy Tiang’s play on Arthur Miller’s visit to China on ice
Carry across
Conner Bouchard-Roberts
Can we still travel in the age of climate change?
Jerryrigged machine
Tilde Acuña
Poetry from Tilde Acuña
Bangkok Days
Pim Wangtechawat
If you grew up in Bangkok, you’re unlikely to notice its bounty of sensory pleasures
Onward, Christian soldier
David Scott Mathieson
Despite their Christian zeal, these missionaries are effective in saving lives
Genocide’s straw man
Matthew Smith
Responding to Benjamin Zawacki’s article
City of light
Sebastian Strangio
Sihanoukville has long had a seamy underbelly
High and dry
Michael Buckley
The Mekong is not a tap
Chinese history
Michael Vatikiotis
An interview with Wang Gungwu