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"Amnesia: A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand" by Arjun Subrahmanyan challenges the prevailing narrative of amnesia surrounding the history of democracy in Thailand. The book highlights the removal of a plaque commemorating the 1932 revolution as part of an effort to marginalize the values of democratic rule. Subrahmanyan argues that the 1932 revolution was a popular democratic movement that faced opposition from royalists, and he explores the motivations and backgrounds of the early democratic reformers. The book also discusses the exclusion of women and Chinese minorities from the People's Party vision for a new Thai society. Overall, the book provides a comprehensive and well-researched analysis of the history of democracy in Thailand and its relevance to the country's current political situation. [Extracted from the article]

Analysing literary texts by using trauma theory provides remarkable insight into how a character goes through different stages of trauma from acting out towards healing. This paper proposes a reading of Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier (1915) as a trauma narrative with its different aspects of a traumatically affected character, John Dowell. The paper first looks at how the confused narrator John Dowell acts out his trauma of betrayal in the forms of repression, amnesia, deferred action, and affective numbing. It then focuses on how he tries to deal with his traumatic memories of adultery by transforming them into a comprehensive narrative but fails to do so. This paper suggests that although trauma theory has its roots in psychoanalysis, it provides the possibility of reading literary texts such as The Good Soldier from a different perspective. In the novel, John Dowell is a telling example of a traumatically affected character incessantly performing his traumatic memories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the book "The Missing Hours," by Emma Kavanagh, is presented.

The article analyses the short story “Cambio de armas" by novelist Luisa Valenzuela from her eponymous short stories collection. Topics discussed in the article include the link between self-knowledge and sanity, the story being about a lady suffering from amnesia, and the work exploring the concepts of madness, and reality both external and internal.

A review of the book "Love Water Memory: A Novel" by Jennie Shortridge is presented.