Devan Schwartz is a fiction writer and journalist who lives in Oregon. His writing has recently appeared in the Asia Literary Review, New Plains Review, Rio Grande Review, The Oregonian, and Street Roots.
I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful.
In No Bad News for the King, Emma Larkin (a pseudonym for an American journalist in Asia) untangles the convoluted story of contemporary Burma and the 2008 cyclone that killed…