| SOCIAL NETWORKS | 3 | Kirsten Han | How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future by Maria Ressa |
| HISTORY & RELIGION | 4 | Abhishek Mehrotra | Inshallah |
| CAMBODIA | 5 | Wayne McCallum | Corporate Nature: An Insider’s Ethnography of Global Conservation by Sarah Milne |
| MILITARY | 6 | Daniel Benowitz | Return of the Junta: Why Myanmar’s Military Must Go Back to the Barracks by Oliver Slow |
| POLITICS | 7 | Martin Laflamme | Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975 by Alexander V. Pantsov, translated by Steven I. Levine |
| COLONISATION | 8 | Salil Tripathi | Empire Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism by Philip J. Stern |
| INTERVIEW | 9 | Brendan Ryan | Đinh Nhung |
| MYANMAR | 12 | Bryony Lau | The road to Muse |
| POETRY | 13 | Jack Malik | Listening to the mountain goats in the MRT on a Saturday night heading toward the water |
| GEOPOLITICS | 14 | Chong Ja Ian | Imperfect Partners: The United States and Southeast Asia by Scot Marciel |
| HUMAN RIGHTS | 15 | Patrick Poon | Chasing Wrongs and Rights: My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World by Elaine Pearson |
| WOMEN | 16 | Christina Cook | Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories by Fiona Sze-Lorrain |
| UYGHUR STORIES | 18 | Muyesser Abdul’ehed | The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang by Perhat Tursun, translated by Darren Byler and Anonymous |
| FANDOM | 19 | Tamar Herman | Y/N by Esther Yi |
| PROFILE | 20 | Joe Freeman | Justin Watkins |
| LGBTQ+ | 22 | Daryl Qilin Yam | Queer Southeast Asia edited by Shawna Tang, Hendri Yulius Wijaya |
| SHORT FICTION | 23 | Katrina Yu | The bamboo rat farmer |
| MENTAL HEALTH | 24 | Tanmoy Goswami | I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee, translated by Anton Hur |
| BEIJING | 25 | Yangyang Cheng | The Soul of Beijing by Tom Pellman |
| INDIA | 26 | Radhika Oberoi | Bombays of the mind |
| MAHUA | 28 | Florence Kuek | The Age of Goodbyes by Li Zi Shu, translated by YZ Chin |
| LAOS | 29 | Marco Ferrarese | Tree Crime by Melody Kemp |
| SHORT FICTION | 30 | Akiya | The claim |
| POETRY | 32 | Zakariya Amataya | In search of poetry |
| CULTURE | 33 | Pauline Fan | The play of power |
| BOOKSELLER | 34 | Erin Hale | To the left |
MANAGING EDITOR Kirsten Han
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Pauline Fan EDITOR-AT-LARGE Kevin Yam
SUB-EDITOR Eldes Tran DESIGN Jess Barr WEBSITE Nicholas Lhoyd-Owen
PROOFREADER Izzy Souster COVER Erica Eng
FOUNDING EDITOR Minh Bui Jones
Mekong Review is published four times a year; next issue August 2023
