Mixed model
Tran Le Thuy
Be wary of Vietnam’s hybrid economic model
Category: Vietnam
War fantasies
Thomas A. Bass
An armchair view of the war in Vietnam
Don’t die another person’s death, The definition of summer, Saigon on a good day
Phan Nhien Hao
Poetry from Phan Nhien Hao
Phuong 19
Connla Stokes
Thriving on pastiche
Monsoon Saigon
Jake Lloyd Jones
The monsoon is the most poetic of seasons
Wall of sound
Cuong Pham
The multilingual, multicultural beats of Vietnamese musician Linh Ha
Down and alone
Will Nguyen
An American protester in Ho Chi Minh City
Reality bites
Michael Tatarski
Market movers and shakers in Vietnam
Realm of paradise
Kim Cheng Boey
Hungry ghosts and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Bride hunters
Leslie Barnes
Vietnamese women who marry Taiwanese men
From sea to mulberry fields
Son Nam
Translated fiction from southern Vietnam
Southern Son
Anthony Morreale
The voice of the Mekong Delta
Painting by subtraction
James Jennings
The evolution and appeal of Vietnamese lacquer paintings
Champa gems
William B. Noseworthy
Finally, a book to showcase the best of Cham art
True believer
Carlyle A. Thayer
Bui Tin (1927–2018) fought against the French, the Americans and, in the end, his Communist comrades
Hanoi after the war
John Ramsden
The Vietnam of 1981 was a very different place
Looking for Bao Ninh
Michael Karnavas
In 1994, Michael Karnavas went in search of the great Vietnamese writer
Bao Ninh’s wars
John Fuller
An interview with the author of The Sorrow of War
Milton’s Indochine
Philip Coggan
The calm before the end in French Indochina
Wounded queen
Michael Freeman
Hieu Minh Nguyen anatomises the wounds and scars of his identity
Capturing Hanoi
Christopher Goscha
Hanoi before capitalism
Kafka in Saigon
Connla Stokes
A bookshop in Ho Chi Minh City
Street artistry
John Ramsden
Bùi Xuân Phái, perhaps the artist of his generation, struggled for acceptance and paint in Vietnam.
Eating passionately
Liam R. Greenwell
A tribute to the late travel writer, chef and broadcaster Anthony Bourdain.
Poetry
Phung Khac Bac
Poems by Phung Khac Bac
Lansdale’s ghost
Thomas A. Bass
Resurrecting the architect of America’s Vietnam War
State censor
Peter Zinoman
Suppressing free speech in the social media age
Good old bad days
Michael L. Gray
How Hanoi’s cartoonists fought hardship with humour
My Lai
Michael Uhl
Was it the scale of the killing or the cover-up that made the My Lai massacre a scandal?
Re-reading Greene
Mai Huyen Chi
The passive Vietnamese in ‘The Quiet American’.
Line and content
Craig Thomas
The art of pushing political boundaries but never stepping over them in Vietnam.
Letters
Michael G. Karnavas, J.D. Wright
Readers on Liam Kelley’s review of Ben Kiernan and Peera Songkünnatham’s review of Thanya Sangkhaphanthanon.
The blogger
John Fuller
Blogger Nguyen Chi Tuyen says he’s ready to sacrifice his life for freedom.
River politics
Andrew Wells-Dang
Can anything be done to stop the rush of hydroelectric dams being built on the Mekong?
Lost in translation
Liam Kelley
Ben Kiernan’s history of Vietnam gets lost in translation
Fall for Saigon
Connla Stokes
Can Ho Chi Minh City survive the drive to transform it into little Singapore?
Yellow music
Cuong Pham
Pre-’75 Saigon music is popular among young Vietnamese.
Heroes of Tet
Michael Dedrick
Fifty years ago, these soldiers launched the most audacious military campaigns of the Vietnam War.
America’s amnesia
Thomas A. Bass
Why the US can’t make an honest film about the war it lost
Formosakill
Calvin Godfrey
When Formosa couldn’t build its steel plant in Taiwan, it turned to Vietnam.