The Very Best of Mekong ReviewSince 2015, Mekong Review has provided a fresh perspective on Asian histories, lives and cultures. The Very Best of Mekong Review brings together thirty two of the finest essays and reviews published between 2019 and 2022 in the quarterly magazine, selected by its editor, Minh Bui Jones. A diverse crop of esteemed and emerging writers such as Bernice Chauly, Sunisa Manning, Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh and Richard Javad Heydarian delve into the promise of

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who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion

Joel Sternfeld

For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics—and their enemies

But for Fawkes

his curiosity

The personal stories are related with novelistic detail

The Guardian called it ‘perhaps the pre-eminent Australian meme of the last 10 years’

Where to find large new “starving crowds” of prospects who spend like sailors on leave (even when the economy is hurting and you’re far more expensive than the competition)

or the sweat on our brow as we start the presentation we do not want to give

he concedes that it is this fact that gives Vertigo its power because it is a film about real people who live in real worlds

Andy Warhol