Books

An American author imagines giving the junta boss a piece of his mind in this bold cocktail of the textual and the visual.

In a new book, Sean Turnell, Australian former adviser to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, recalls the achievements of her small team of reformers in the face of great odds.

American photojournalist Greg Constantine’s ‘Ek Khaale’ project assembles old photos and documents to reclaim the Rohingya community’s identity.

The Irrawaddy “Books” section offers you insightful reviews of volumes on a vast array of issues ranging from culture and politics to ethnic issues and geopolitics, as well as memoirs...

In a new book, Saw Eh Htoo and Tony Waters examine the late dictator’s policy of Burmanization and how it led directly to Myanmar’s current crisis.

Riding the country’s railways in 2016, author Clare Hammond uncovered a unique history of authoritarianism in Myanmar, in all its many forms.

Patrick Winn’s account of Wa drug trafficking and the CIA’s shadowy involvement in it lacks seriousness and strains credibility, writes David Scott Mathieson.

A literary biography of Burma’s first prime minister is a timely reminder that the country’s democratic path has long been forged from behind bars.

Films have always provided Myanmar people with a way “to look at the past through a fancy new lens but also to consider revolutionary new futures”, writes Jane Ferguson.

Ellen Goldstein’s Damned If You Do pulls no punches in its excoriating account of World Bank incompetence amid crisis.