Features
THE TRANSLATOR'S STUDIOby Michael Berry
A dialogue with Howard Goldblatt, whose many translations have shaped our conceptions of contemporary Chinese literature.
ANOTHER VIETNAM
by Anya Schiffrin
Arresting images of the war years by North Vietnamese combat photographers.
A WOMAN'S VOICE
by Martha Ann Selby
An interview with Wendy Doniger on why she undertook a new translation of the fourth-century Sanskrit Kamasutra.
On-Site: LETTER FROM VIETNAM
by Elka Ray
A North American resident of Hanoi reflects on a decade of change.
Fiction
THE NIGHT TRAIN AT DEOLI
by Ruskin Bond
Passing through a town on the edge of the jungle, where nobody ever got off the train and nobody got on.
SONG OF THE WIND
by Lhagyal Tsering
A prose poem by a young Tibetan poet.
Departments
CITY SCAN - Fukuoka, Kathmandu, Macau, Phnom Penh, Singapore
GLEANINGS
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
ART
Visions of India: Four women artists' singular points of view
by Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker
Beyond Convention: Chinese women artists today
by Joan Lebold Cohen
MUSIC
Wenji: Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: A chamber opera in two languages
by Suzanne Charlé
FILM
Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Lou Ye's Suzhou River
by Jerome Silbergeld
Heavy Weather: Family dramas abound in Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding
by L. Somi Roy
BOOK REVIEWS
Beyond Illusions by Duong Thu Huong, reviewed by Kim Ninh
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! by Kenzaburo Oe, reviewed by Andrea Kempf
Red Poppies: A Novel by Alai, reviewed by Michael Berry
Video: Stories by Meera Nair, reviewed by Saragree Sengupta
Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui, reviewed by Patricia Laurence
The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune,
by Stuart Galbraith IV, reviewed by Susan J. Napier
A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to Videos and DVDs by Donald Richie, reviewed by Daisuke Miyao
The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong by Edward A. Gargan, reviewed by Sarah Stephens
The Civilization of Angkor by Charles Higham, reviewed by Ann W. Norton
Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet by Dorothy Ko, reviewed by John E. Vollmer
POETRY
Boys of Summer
by Chimako Tada
