Bangkok Days
Pim Wangtechawat
If you grew up in Bangkok, you’re unlikely to notice its bounty of sensory pleasures
Category: Thailand
An inconvenient truth
David J.H. Blake
The overlooked role of irrigation in the destruction of the Mekong River
High and dry
Michael Buckley
The Mekong is not a tap
Thai Drama
James Weitz
Ethical predicaments in modern Thai fiction
Last show
David Scott Mathieson
An ode to Thailand’s lost movie theatres
The challenger
Mutita Chuachang
An interview with Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit
My sister’s story
Pim Wangtechawat
History is thicker than water
Have faith
George Styllis
The great escape from Tham Luang
Lost in paradise
Zachary Stockill
Last stop in Chiang Mai
Red noise
Chris Baker
Sound and division in Thailand
No easy way out
Tyrell Haberkorn
Examining public and private violence in Thailand
Many parts
Rupert Winchester
Prabda Yoon shifts his absurdist lens to the body
Street opera
Emma Larkin
The past is ever-present in Bangkok’s neighbourhoods
A judicial killing
Teerapon Anmai
When reading books was deadly
Back to democracy
Tyrell Haberkorn
Five years after the coup, Thais go to the polls
Anti-university
Thongchai Winichakul
Thai universities are no longer places of learning
Direct line
Paul Wedel
Tracing the career of Anand Panyarachun
Slum hip-hop
Pim Wangtechawat
Bangkok’s growing community of aspiring rappers
Culture shock
Pim Wangtechawat
Thailand’s problematic relationship with hip-hop
Incomplete decolonisation
Prabhakar Singh
The curious case of Chagos
Capitalist outposts
David Scott Mathieson
Fear and loathing on the Thai border
Dark snaps
Nic Dunlop
Having fun on the Death Railway
Nostalgia for Ayutthaya
Pim Wangtechawat
It has been fashionable for Thais to visit the old capital Ayutthaya
Covering Up Violence
Pim Wangtechawat
The #DontTellMeHowDress exhibition challenges Thai attitudes to gender violence.
Fried and fabulous
Pim Wangtechawat
Aharn sin kid— “the meal we fall back on when we can’t think of anything else to eat.”
Nose to tail
Philip Cornwel-Smith
Tripe to trotters, brains to balls—Bangkok is learning to love the whole pig
Remembering Jerry
James Newport
Rock ‘n’ roll biographer and raconteur Jerry Hopkins passes away, aged 82.
Teenage kicks
Pim Wangtechawat
TV drama Hormones captures the daunting complexities of being a Thai teenager
Liquid Bangkok
Tim Pelling
Liquid Bangkok sets out to capture the beauty of a neglected world
Cold War monks
Camille Devries
Zealotry and conflict in Southeast Asia
Being Asian
Pim Wangtechawat
Crazy Rich Asians gets beyond the stereotypes
The journalist
Gwen Robinson
The veteran Thai journalist Kavi Chongkittavorn on the state of regional media.
A lady of distinction
John F. Hartmann
Boonlua’s classic on the Thai aristocracy is a modern-day parable.
Letters
Michael G. Karnavas, J.D. Wright
Readers on Liam Kelley’s review of Ben Kiernan and Peera Songkünnatham’s review of Thanya Sangkhaphanthanon.
An earful
Peera Songkünnatham
How a poem about Yingluck Shinawatra’s ear shines a light on the patriarchal culture embedded in Thai folk tales.
White out
Pim Wangtechawat
Think Hollywood whitewashing is just about representation and diversity?
Deep south
Abby Seiff
Amid the sectarian violence, life in Thailand’s troubled south resembles life everywhere else.
Too much democracy
T.F. Rhoden
Something is missing at the heart of Thai democracy.
Life as a shopping mall
Pim Wangtechawat
How Bangkok’s middle class live out their fears and fantasies in shopping malls.
In parentheses
Philip Cornwel-Smith
The enfant terrible of Thai literature breaks rules and conventions to get to the truth