Betraying my heritage: the riddles of Chinese and Lao
What does is mean to be championing the revindication of Lao ethnicity when one is not in fact Lao, asks Peera Songkünnatham in this personal essay on identity and belonging.
What does is mean to be championing the revindication of Lao ethnicity when one is not in fact Lao, asks Peera Songkünnatham in this personal essay on identity and belonging.
The junta's "Thailand 4.0" policy might turn out to be a poisoned arrow for the people in the Northeast.
The age-old trope of Isaan women as domestic servants in Thai media has not gone away just yet.
From the prime minister's warning to molam listeners to UNESCO's praise of khaen music.
Esania Sector 9 The Lost City is a post-apocalyptic science-fiction online novel imagining Isaan after total ecological collapse.
A new book on Thai art seeks to historicize contemporary art in the transition from modernity to contemporaneity.
Art historian Dr. Bonnie Brereton talks about Buddhist murals as a “democratic vision of society,” and a growing recognition of the shared culture in a region stretching from central Isaan to Laos.
In the wake of Yingluck Shinawatra's departure from Thailand, Peera Songkünnatham explores the failure of political poetry to conceive of a future beyond the current political gridlock.
Peera Songkünnatham reviews the short stories of Isaan-born author Pira Sudham.
Preecha Phinthong's "Isan-Thai-English Dictionary" is like a very long love letter to the Isaan literature and language. But almost 30 years after its first publication, it is time for a more modern version, writes Peera Songkünnatham.
Pop Aye is about a middle-aged man facing a midlife crisis. It is a road movie about coming to terms with living and dying. It isn’t really about elephants, yet everywhere you look around here, there’s an elephant.
Peera Songkünnatham explores perceptions of Isaan cuisine as "unclean" and foreigners' food preferences through a dialogue with their significant other, interspersed with public health posters in a cancer hospital.