Old Burma hands write on the ‘odd man out in Asia’
Monday
6th June
2016
ANDREW SELTH | The recent release of former ambassador Trevor Wilson’s book, Eyewitness to Early Reform in Myanmar, prompts…
Burma
Colonial-era pulp fiction portrays ‘technicolor’ Myanmar
Tuesday
12th July
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Ask foreign visitors to Myanmar what literary works they associate with the country and the chances…
Wars and rumors of wars
Monday
15th August
2016
ANDREW SELTH | In the first of a two-part series, Andrew Selth explores the relationship between conflict and comics…
Heroines, heroes and villains
Tuesday
16th August
2016
ANDREW SELTH | In the second article of a two-part series, Andrew Selth takes a look at superheroes and…
Journeys without maps in Myanmar
Wednesday
14th September
2016
ANDREW SELTH | More open politics and new technologies are putting much of the country back on the…
Myanmar, Myeik and mythmaking
Tuesday
18th October
2016
ANDREW SELTH | For most of the 20th century, the Myeik (formerly Mergui) Archipelago in Myanmar’s far south was…
Burma’s Rohingya Muslims mourn the end of the Obama era — and worry about Trump
Thursday
12th January
2017
ANDREW SELTH | Burma’s Rohingya Muslims have been described as the most friendless people in the world. But for…
A poem and the politics of high imperialism
Wednesday
22nd February
2017
MICHAEL WESLEY | Michael Wesley takes a look at a new book by Andrew Selth and the story of how…
The wisdom in the literature
Wednesday
22nd March
2017
ANDREW SELTH | Andrew Selth outlines why past generations’ accumulated literary and scholarly work on Myanmar is at…
Myanmar and Aung San: The resurrection of an icon
Friday
31st March
2017
ANDREW SELTH | In this post on The Interpreter, Andray Abrahamian recently drew attention to the Myanmar government’s…