Behind the Painting

Behind the PaintingOne of Thailands best known and most highly regarded novels, portraying the romance of a young Thai man and a married older woman In that tranquil and apparently very ordinary picture, I see everything unfolding. Every scene, every part, from the beginning to the final act Nopporn, a Thai student studying in Japan, is tasked with hosting a distinguished old family friend and his new wife, the beautiful, aristocratic Kirati. Despite their difference in

Although the name Kazaruni speaks to an origin in Kazarun

yet his tafsir is by no means a ‘Sufi exegesis’

Karl Polanyi's landmark 1944 work is one of the earliest and most powerful critiques of unregulated markets

but maintains a regional and deep-historical focus

a foreword by Hopscotch Reading Room and an afterword in which designer

The Ramayana and the Malay Shadow-Play

The Long Form is the story of two people composing a day together

and try new identities on for size

often invoking his poetic ‘godfathers’ from Jack Kerouac

to unearth memories just out of reach

this edition includes essays on the historical and political theoretical underpinnings of Malthus’s work by Niall O’Flaherty

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