Chinese law allows the state to punish its citizens for consuming cannabis outside its borders, but many young Chinese citizens see Thailand as a safe haven for mind-altering experiments.
Rather than imposing a narrative or privileging the human perspective, Jeanne Penjan Lassus’s works attune to the rhythms, temporality, and micro-activities of a place—observing plants, animals, and environmental shifts with patience and openness.
Arnold Is A Model Student shines a light on an unfair system, challenging the notion of what it means to be a “model” within such broken structures.
We don’t know how history will remember or talk about the Milk Tea Alliance. But it isn’t the only recent manifestation of transnational solidarity with the youth at its core.
Cybercrime is a big business, and some of its leading perpetrators are playing a cat-and-mouse game with the authorities in Southeast Asia.
Playing with nationalism is to take part in a risky game.
An exhibition in Pattani brings art collectives from three countries together to create dialogue on communal work and solidarity, encouraging people to look beyond stereotypes of Thailand’s deep south.
The Miss Universe franchise has been dismissed as a chauvinistic relic, but Thailand’s long-standing fixation with such pageants suggests that there are deeper implications.
Two group shows staged in Bangkok question mainstream Cold War narratives through contemporary art.
“Whenever I think of a family member, I always think of A-ma. Her life tells the story of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia.”
Politics, memory, love, obsession and death… all can become fertile material for a writer like Veeraporn Nitiprapha.
When Witit Chanthamarit was a child, independent bookstores were not the rarity they are today. In opening Vacilando, he hopes to recapture the sense of community he’d felt before.
A letter to a friend, on thoughts of ‘home’ prompted by the Thai dream-pop duo, HYBS.
The Anjaree Archive preserves material collected over the decades by one of Thailand’s first advocacy groups for gender and sexual rights. But can an archive also tell the story of its own messy creation?
Our growing Thai family, now into its fourth generation, has given us plenty of smiles and laughter… and outbursts of anger and stubbornness and exasperation.
Prism of Photography is an attempt to challenge the fixity of historical account, specifically the 6 October 1976 massacre at Thammasat University, through images.
A sordid saga of greed, corruption, desperate despots and out-of-control dam-building corporations—propelling the rapid demise of the Mekong River.
Mae Sot, Thailand, provides the anonymity a Burmese peace activist needs, although not without guarded boundaries and precarious undercurrents to navigate
Yo and Noom choose their books, in English and Thai, with care and purpose to ensure that Passport Bookshop has a clear identity and its patrons a quality read.
It is especially important to pay attention to Myanmar right now, but the future of Burmese-language instruction in English is uncertain. Joe Freeman speaks with linguist Justin Watkins about his work.
Poetry by Zakariya Amataya, translated by Preeyaporn Charoenbutra and Sunida Supantamart.
Some might dismiss graffiti as “rubbish”, but street art can tell a story about a city’s history, politics and culture. A review of Bangkok Street Art and Graffiti: Hope Full, Hope Less, Hope Well by Rupert Mann.
Thailand seen through one family’s history
A blind person’s guide to Bangkok
When music comes to the Thai capital
The end of an affair
Thai curator Gridthiya Gaweewong on how to question everything
An ode to Thailand’s vanished cinemas
In the middle of a Bangkok mall, a respite
The origins of Thai conservatism in the era of King Bhumibol
Children of Thailand’s urban poor speak for themselves
Excess and dispossession frame a tragedy in Thailand
Thai expat literature is littered with bad behaviour
Politics and monarchy in Thailand
A short history of Thai comics
A novel takes on the Thammasat massacre
The spectre of the Thammasat massacre hangs over the current protest in Thailand
Alienated souls in exotic locations—welcome to Osborneland
Forty-four years later, silence still shrouds the Thammasat student massacre in Bangkok
How Thailand and Buddhism changed a scholar’s outlook on life