Gutting the press
Thomas A. Bass
Vietnam imprisons more journalists
Category: Southeast Asia
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
Home quarantine
Khai Q. Nguyen
Memories are let loose in a Ho Chi Minh City quarantine facility
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