Road ahead closed

Diversions abound in journalist Pico Iyer's biography of his long-time friend the Dalai Lama

How the trigger feels
Chavoret Jaruboon's memoir about being licensed to kill has remained a solid seller for three years.....

Bangkok's beauty in the eye of the beholder
Mae Naak is Bangkok's most famous ghost. The story of her love for her husband, which transcends even....

In the belly of the beast
Diving deep into China's secret underworlds, a young western writer surfaces with a snapshot of the....

A recent newspaper story reported that a high school in Loei has set up a separate bathroom for kathoey....

Richard Russo, the sage of upstate New York, explains six decades in a life that never graduated from high....

Teenagers in or out of love should make a date with this issue. It offers updates on all the entertainment....

On civil society
Focusing on "the experience of the Small Scale Farmers' Assembly of Isan (SSFAI)", this volume....
A tribute to the tusker
As India's pachyderm population declines, there's a nostalgic yearning for the long-lost mystique of....
Plugging that brain drain
The Wisdom Paradox By Elkhonon Goldberg Published by Pocket Books, 2007 Available at Asian Books, Bt450
Meet Keller the lizard killer
More Living Thai Ways Part III By Michael Keller Published by Bangkok Books, 2006 Available at Asia Books,....

Chronicles of a rich heritage
Joop Ave shares his passion for Indonesian handicrafts in his new coffee-table book
Symbolism Decoded
A new book by a former National Museum volunteers unlocks the secrets behind the motifs of Chinese art
A City of Contrasts
An art historian takes a long, hard look at the Venice of the East in a new cultural guide
'Dead' writer talking
Author Peter James, whose tales of a fictional British police detective sell in the millions, is quite at ease....

Richard A Engelhardt
Background: Unesco regional adviser for culture in Asia and the Pacific and coauthor of the recently published....
John Whitehead
Background: director of the British Council in Thailand