Modesty culture
Dania Kamal Aryf
We need to talk about Malaysia’s modesty culture
Tag: Malaysia
Penang retreat
Marc de Faoite
A bookshop in George Town rides the pandemic
Carried away
Pauline Fan
Teaching Paul Celan to speak Malay and teaching Malay to speak Celan
Against Malaysian food
Alicia Izharuddin
Behind the delight of Malaysian food hides a history of exploitation and environmental destruction
Coalition division
Carl Vadivella Belle
Sixty years after independence Malaysia remains a fragmented country
The race ladder
Preeta Samarasan
How to talk about race in peninsular Malaysia
Chinese history
Michael Vatikiotis
An interview with Wang Gungwu
Flying roti
Marc de Faoite
Celebrating the humble roti canai
Yours and mine
Ashvinder Singh
Secrets and lies in colonial Malaya
The lives of others
Pauline Fan
Ho Sok Fong writes from the other side of everything
Ipoh City of Love II
Jack Malik
A poem by Jack Malik
Writing debt
Joshua Kam
The winner of the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize writes for his ancestors
Cursed
Faisal Tehrani
“May your arse be on fire one day, Najib!”
Don’t be afraid
Fahmi Mustaffa
A chance encounter in George Town
Enduring
Aizuddin H. Anuar
An education in Sabah
One of us
Preeta Samarasan
Tash Aw writes about migrant labour
On the island
Marc de Faoite
My island home
Facing Anwar
Bernice Chauly
Confronting Malaysia’s leader-in-waiting
After the plantations
Carl Vadivella Belle
The political history of Malaysian Indians
Useless
Preeta Samarasan
A new short story from the author of Evening Is the Whole Day
Jack of all fruit
Marc de Faoite
What to do with an unripe jackfruit
Chasing thieves
Victor T King
The heist of the century
The second coming
Marc de Faoite
What the return of Mahathir means for Malaysia
Back to power
Eddin Khoo
An interview with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
Emergency lives
Zhou Hau Liew
The broken lives of the Malayan Emergency
Notes on a scandal
Clare Rewcastle
How Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal was exposed to the world
Adulation
Carl Vadivella Belle
Mahathir’s right-hand man gets away scot-free in this biography
Art and context
Peter Yeoh
T.K. Sabapathy opens up a world of art
King Krishen
Marina Tan
The legacy of Malaysia’s king of theatre
Literary town
Kate Mayberry
A literary festival with a political message
Farewell, sweet sodomy
Ann Lee
A generation of Malaysians have grown up on a rotten law
Four generations
Sharon W.H. Ling
A family scattered by politics
Return to the Archetype
Hassan Abd Muthalib
Malaysia’s electoral narrative conforms to a universal storyline.
Walking the talk
Marina Mahathir
Malaysia’s opposition delivered a startling victory in May’s elections by going house-to-house.
The new bogeyman
Marina Tan
Perversely, vanquishing an old enemy in Malaysia could make it harder to create art.
Coming home
Mohan Ambikaipaker
Returning to Malaysia on the eve of an historic election
Mourning in victory
Preeta Samarasan
For 60 years, racial politics demarcated Malaysian society
Enough
Carl Vadivella Belle
Lim Teck Ghee saw how Malaysia’s political status quo would end
This Time
Sreehevi Iyer
Fiction: On the eve of Malaysia’s general election, Mahathir visits Anwar in hospital.
Mahathir: Renaissance man
Ooi Kee Beng
Mahathir Mohamad’s return gives him an opportunity to address his sins to the nation, and to Anwar Ibrahim.