As a puny winter sun settled over the morning Irrawaddy river, eight men stood up, smoothed their winter coats, brushing off crumbs of cake and errant cheroot ash, and one by one introduced themselves ...

Writers find inspiration in all kinds of places: urban landscapes, the great outdoors, a room of one’s own. For Nay Phone Latt, a Burmese writer and online activist, it was a jail cell. “Prison is a ...

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