Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar edited by Adam Simpson, Nicholas Farrelly and Ian Holliday, Routledge, 2018, 452 pages.
11 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud reviews a new resource for scholarship on Myanmar.
The Other Ladies of Myanmar by Jennifer Rigby, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, Pages 127.
5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Jennifer Rigby’s telling of twelve remarkable Myanmar women and their life histories.
Opening up Hidden Burma: Journeys With – And Without – Author Dr Bob Percival, edited by Keith Lyons, et.al, Tenko Press, 2018, 230 pages.
3 Minutes To ReadElliott Fox enjoys this series of tributes to a much-missed friend of Yangon.
Bagan And The World – Early Myanmar and Its Global Connections edited by Goh Geok Yian, John N. Miksic and Michael Aung-Thwin, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, 230 Pages.
5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee explores the trans-border relevance of the archaeological site of Bagan.
The Cell, Exile, and the New Burma: A Political Education amid the Unfinished Journey toward Democracy by Kyaw Zwa Moe, Yangon, New Myanmar Publishing House, 2018, 245 Pages
6 Minutes To ReadDavid Scott Mathieson explores the new collection of essays by noted journalist Kyaw Zwa Moe, an emotional palimpsest of lives lived under military rule.
Border Capitalism, Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone by Stephen Campbell. Cornell University Press, 2018. 206 Pages.
8 Minutes To ReadCourtney T. Wittekind reviews Stephen Campbell’s account of migrant labor in Thailand.
Reporting the Retreat: War Correspondents in Burma by Philip Woods, London, Hurst & Co., 2016, 206 Pages, ISBN: 9781849047173
4 Minutes To ReadGiulia Garbagni reviews a nuanced account of the challenges and contradictions of wartime journalism.
Burma, Kipling and Western Music – The Riff from Mandalay by Andrew Selth, New York, Routledge, 2017, 293 Pages.
5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Andrew Selth’s book on popular music in colonial Burma.
Hidden Words, Hidden Worlds – Contemporary Short Stories from Myanmar, Lucas Stewart and Alfred Birnbaum (eds.), British Council, London, 2017. Pp. 153.
5 Minutes To ReadRichard Roewer reviews a new collection of short stories from Myanmar writers.
Citizenship in Myanmar: Ways of Being in and from Burma, Edited by Ashley South and Marie Lall, Singapore: ISEAS, 2018, 316 pages
9 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud reviews a new edited volume on the contentious issues surrounding citizenship in Myanmar.