AUGUST–OCTOBER 2023
VOLUME 8, NUMBER 4
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CHARACTER STUDY 3 David Scott Mathieson Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent by Wendy Law-Yone
SRI LANKA
4 Fathima Cader
PRESENTING HISTORY 5 Emi Donald
Chats with the Dead by Shehan Karunatilaka
Building an archive
ON THE MARGINS
MEMORY
6 Stephanie Chok
Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal
7 Paul French Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural
Revolution by Tania Branigan
FAMILY
INTERVIEW
POEM
8 Stephen Gregory
9 Abby Seiff
11 Anthony Tao
Land of smiles?
Xyza Cruz Bacani
Heartbreak in Southeast Asia
SEEKING JUSTICE
12 Loh Pei Ying
After the Inquiry by Jolene Tan
ECO-FICTION
13 Siddharth Dasgupta
Everything the Light Touches by Janice Pariat
POEM
13 Maung Day
Narrow circles
COLLECTIVE ACTION 14 Johanna Costigan
Fill in the blank and Hannah Sage Kay
LIFE AND COVID
AGENCY
PHOTOGRAPHY
15 Alex Li
Transformations
16 Sean Tierney
To my 2019 self
17 Dương Mạnh Hùng Prism of Photography: Dispersion of Knowledge and Memories of the 6th
October Massacre by Thanavi Chotpradit and Kornkrit Jianpinidnan
PHOTO ESSAY
FICTION
POEM
PROFILE
LITERATURE
POEM
RIVER
TRAVEL
MAE SOT
FICTION
BOOKSELLER
18 Hina Husain
Hope
20 Aditya Narayan Sharma The somnambulist
21 Jake Dennis
Recovering flames
22 Kirsten Han
25 Michael Howard
26 Kulleh Grasi
27 Michael Buckley
28 Emily Ding
30 Peixuan Xie
32 Ngan Nguyen
34 Benjamin Zawacki
Soh Rui Yong
The Long Day Wanes by Anthony Burgess
Ibun
Mekong apocalypse
Peering around river bends
So close, too far away
White snow, silver moon
Passport Bookshop, Bangkok
mekongreview.com 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 Dan Koh COVER Erica Eng
FOUNDING EDITOR Minh Bui Jones
Mekong Review is published four times a year; next issue November 2023
