Malaysia
In Cold Air
Fion Yap finds an ambivalent comfort in KL’s shopping malls.
Read MoreA Shadow Lurks on KL’s Edge
It’s possible to live in its presence while never fully seeing what it is.
Read MoreWhen Wandering is a Way of Life
An airport departure lounge feels different if your departure is forced.
Read MorePenang’s Bridges Are Passages to Another World
Nobody is an island, including those who live on one.
Read MoreA Love Letter to Hawker Spaces
One unheralded power of hawker food is its capacity to get you out of your head. “This moment. This bowl.”
Read MoreAbove a Drowned World, Existence is Resistance
Bethany Luhong Balan returns to her family longhouse, which sits beneath 200 meters of water.
Read MoreDancing Through Language Barriers
Shake it like a Mandarin speaker.
Read MoreLife in the Well
Tan Kai Yik once dreamed of getting out. Now he pines to return.
Read MoreTiger Hunting is Long Gone
Khoo Siang Hong seeks quiet and seclusion, a brief respite. Kahang, a depopulating town inhabited mostly by the elderly, can certainly provide it.
Read MoreHow Much of the City Are We Willing to Lose?
On George Town’s crowded streets, Miriam Devaprasana witnesses countless, and priceless, displays of openness, connection, acceptance and belonging.
Read MoreHin Bus Depot, Cultural Space
Wilson Khor on what a local art space has done for George Town, and for him.
Read MoreRaging Burgundy Era: a Girl, a Suburb and a Lifelong Connection
Adriana Nordin Manan on why she keeps returning to the streets and stores of Taman Melawati.
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