One of the most acclaimed voices in contemporary Thai literature, Duanwad Pimwana tells the story of Manop, an ageing man haunted by a love he never confessed. When a vivid dream brings back memories of Chaiyapon, the childhood friend he secretly loved, decades of silence begin to resurface. Moving between adolescence and old age, the story follows a life shaped by desire and compromise, tracing the quiet negotiations through which a kathoey identity was concealed and ultimately reclaimed. At the centre of this journey is the “chong kraben”, a genderless garment that becomes both a memory of first love and a late gesture of self-recognition.

Vinyl records are often understood as containers of sound. Fabio Acca proposes the opposite: they are performative devices that produce experiences. Positioning the record within the field of Live Arts, the text explores listening as an embodied practice through which bodies, desires and identities take shape. Drawing on personal memories, performance theory and the history of artist records in Itlay, Acca argues that a record does not merely document an event, but reactivates it. From domestic turntables to experimental sound art, listening emerges as a live act where sound, imagination and presence continuously unfold.

A Manila office worker arrives in Masbate expecting a provincial rodeo. Instead, he enters a world where cattle still organise the rhythms of life, where spectacle and labour blur under the island sun. In this literary fiction, Glenn Diaz moves through cowboy rituals, uneasy conversations and nocturnal pastures to explore what modern urban life has lost contact with, and what still survives at the edge of disappearance.