ASEAN On The Map

Eleven writers from the Philippines and nine from Singapore were connected via Google Docs and a pining for “the composition of alternatives, other...

This book is an anthology of essays recording debates and discourses that took place leading up to the 14th General Election, the historic election...

Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian his...

In A Child of All Nations, the reader is immediately swept up by a story that is profoundly feminist, devastatingly anticolonialist--and full of he...

In 1970s Thailand, three young people meet each other with fateful results. Det’s just lost his mother, the granddaughter of a king. He clings to C...

C. M. Turnbull’s one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource since its first edition was published in 1977. Revised fully twice,...

In 1930s Luang Prabang, the beautiful and demure Kham-Phiou was much admired. On a New Year's Day, the life of the aristocratic young woman changed...

translated by Roger Nelson A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land traces the story of Sam, a young man who leaves the countryside for the capital after ...

Afterland is a powerful, essential collection of poetry that recounts with devastating detail the Hmong exodus from Laos and the fate of thousands ...

Among the many groups of workers whose labor built Singapore in the 20th century, there may be none as marginalized in memory as the women who trav...

The poems in Romalyn Ante's luminous debut build a bridge between two worlds: journeying from the country 'na nagluwal sa 'yo' - that gave birth to...

translated by Stephen J. Epstein A dazzling and provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fie...

translated by Annie Tucker One stormswept afternoon, after twenty-one years of being dead, the beautiful Indonesian prostitute Dewi Ayu rise from h...

Burma is one of the largest countries in Southeast Asia and was once one of its richest. Under successive military regimes, however, the country ev...

BooksActually's Gold Standard 2016 is a highly anticipated new annual anthology from indie bookstore BooksActually, comprising short fiction by the...

To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and...

On her last trip abroad before the COVID-19 pandemic, Clara Chow visited Ipoh. Over three days, she explored cave temples, bank vaults and a suppos...

In postcolonial Singapore and Malaysia, Pentecostal megachurches dominate the Christian landscape, but the "big four" Protestant churches-Anglican,...

translated by Jeremy Tiang In the 1910s, thirteen-year-old Leong Ping Hung comes to Singapore from China to seek his fortune. Decades later, he is ...

We love Asian folklore. We grew up listening to Chinese legends, Arab fairy tales, Malay ghost stories and Indian sacred epics, and their fabulous ...

Nusantaria - often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' - is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and ...

Excavations, Interrogations, Krishen Jit & Contemporary Malaysian Theatre recounts the interventions and interactions of Malaysian theatre doye...

Translated by Sim Wai Chew Hok Leong only knows one thing about his future: he does not want to become an office boy buying coffee for his superior...

Welcome to Shanghai. A restless metropolis where old traditions collide with new ambitions - a place where anything can happen and anyone can becom...

What happens when a country splits apart? Forty-five years ago, Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two countries have developed alo...

As the world moves into the twentieth century, Minke, one of the few European-educated Javanese, optimistically starts a new life in a new town: Be...

What is the meaning of Mahathir Mohamad’s return as Prime Minister of Malaysia? And what does it mean for the future of the country? In From High H...

Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that unde...

"As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has always been some grand and even intimidating...

Does home have to be a country or a city? ... Or is home this house or that? We have been fortunate...We seemed always to have been home. Wang Gung...

House of Glass is the final volume of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's acclaimed Buru Quartet, which chronicles the turbulent history of early twentieth-cen...

When a renegade prophet vanishes in a cloud of pigeons in Kuala Lumpur, chorister and first witness Gabriel finds himself press-ganged into a wild ...

In her stunning debut, Souvankham Thammavongsa captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees in a nameless city, illuminating hopes, dis...

Widely regarded as the first Singapore novel, If We Dream Too Long explores the dilemmas and challenges faced by its hero, Kwang Meng, as he naviga...

Today, Southeast Asia stands uniquely exposed to the waxing power of the new China. Three of its nations border China and five are directly impacte...

Translated by Thomas Bunstead In a chaotic city, the latest in a line of viruses advances as a man recounts the fated steps that led him to be conf...

translated by John H. McGlynn In August 1883 massive volcanic eruptions destroyed two-thirds of the island of Krakatau, in the Sunda Strait between...

Laos, 1900 - a frontier land caught in a power struggle between Eastern kingdoms and Western colonial powers, a fertile place teetering between an ...

Little Basket 2017: New Malaysian Writing is the second book of this planned annual anthology. It includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry as well as ...

Little Basket 2018: New Malaysian Writing is the third and (alas and alamak!) final volume. It has a print run of 1,000 and won’t be reprinted. War...

translated by Natascha Bruce Singapore, late 1980s. As women gain power and independence, what’s an insecure guy to do? Lonely Face is the story of...

This premiere issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about the Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Laos and Vietnam. Inside ...

This issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. Inside these pages, y...

This issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Philippines, Cambodia and Taiwan. Inside these pages, you’ll find: ...

This issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand. Inside these...

This issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand. Inside the...

This jam-packed sixth issue presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia and Laos.  Inside ...

This issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Laos, the Philippines, Indonesia and Korea. Inside t...