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…
Andrew Selth
More name games in Burma/Myanmar
Thursday
18th August
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Regular readers of The Interpreter will know that, over the past few years, this site has…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Colonial Burma, history and phillumeny
Tuesday
24th May
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Andrew Selth discusses how matchbox labels provide a glimpse into the culture of colonial Burma. In…
Colonial Burma, as seen through collectible cards
Thursday
12th May
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Over the centuries, popular perceptions of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, have been remarkably consistent. The…
Burma after forty years
Thursday
28th April
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Burma’s recent history, of turmoil and change (including the 1989 renaming to Myanmar), makes it a…
Kipling’s Burma and Myanmar’s Kipling
Tuesday
26th April
2016
ANDREW SELTH | He knew little about the country, but colonised the West’s imagination about it. The Indian Institute…