The art of ancestral listening through batik

Transgressing spatial and temporal bounds through the image

A researcher visits the UK National Archives in search of Malaya.

Malaya’s rainforest in the colonial and military imaginary

Reimagining the Malayan Emergency

Elsewhere, a new history / Of touch, not pitted against the land.

It is a wonder that anything was left of the road.

Hindi na ibinalik / ng mga dayo ang kinuhang / lupain | The settlers never returned / the land they grabbed

There is a name for every kind of violence.

‘When we bury someone, cremate them, mark their grave, thousands of miles from their place of birth, we are in some ways promising that we will return to them and that we will return them.’

‘i contour my face with sand & it is war paint on the wrong body. i puncture my nostril with steel & that is a war crime on the wrong body.’

The frustrations and aspirations of the most famous outlaw from Korean pre-modern literature echo a story of modern Korea.

‘in the haiku I send her / and the silence she sends back, / hell no, nan da yo, / call it off, snap it shut, trash / it, just let it be, let me be’

A review of Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know

On the centenntial of its founding, a short history of the Ghadr Party, and the ghosts that live on

The veteran comedian, actor and director was the epitome of Hong Kong’s ’90s-era mo lei tau subculture.

Kitamura chats with Hermione Hoby about her new novel, a “collage of colonialism.”