The stubborn writer
Khai Q Nguyen
Few people outside of Vietnam have heard of Nguyen Binh Phuong
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Attitude adjustment
Nic Dunlop
Thailand once had the freest press in Southeast Asia.
Guardian of Yangon
Poppy McPherson
Thant Myint-U writes “with an eye to what the past might say about the present”
Truth to power
Penny Edwards
You Need to Apologise to the People is in Burmese, written by a Burmese, about Burmese people
Benedict Anderson
John Sidel
Benedict Anderson left a prodigious legacy for Southeast Asian studies
When genocide starts
Minh Bui Jones
The éminence grise of the Cambodian genocide
From teacher to torturer
Philip Coggan
At S-21, Duch was responsible for the torture and death of some 14,000 people
Books for everyone
Nic Dunlop
Established in Chiang Mai in 1989, publisher Silkworm now boasts more than 200 titles
Duras, mother and Cambodia
Penny Edwards
The life and work of Marguerite Duras
Victor’s justice
Minh Bui Jones
The international defence counsel-cum-Khmer Rouge fellow traveller
Hidden history
Luke Hunt
Steven Boswell talks about his book King Norodom’s Head
Purity and Danger
Minh Bui Jones
Putting the family ghost to rest
Soth Polin
Penny Edwards
What happens when the musicality of Khmer literature is transposed to a new world order?
Lizards of Phnom Penh
Luke Hunt
Material deemed unfit for the news pages found a home in “The Gecko”