BANGKOK -- For years, the Thailand sections of Bangkok's English-language bookstores have been dominated by a colorful yet shallow mixture of popular and academic history, travel guides, coffee-table cookbooks and expatriate-penned thrillers that amplify the country's less-savory aspects. What they have sorely lacked, in other words, is Thai voices.
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Reproductions of works by Thai contemporary artists accompany the poems and short stories in the first edition of The Bangkok Literary Review. © Nikkei montage/source photos courtesy of The Bangkok Literary Review/River Books/Feminist Press/Two Lines Press
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