This week in the ARB [newsletter for 17 Nov 2025]: fiction, crime fiction in translation, memoir in translation, history, military history, historical linguistics, literary history mailchi.mp/7972635b3a7f...

Memoir, recently in the ARB: “Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window: The Sequel” by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, “Mother Mary Comes To Me” by Arundhati Roy, “I Found Myself… The Last Dreams” by Naguib Mahfouz asianreviewofbooks.com/tag/memoir/

Today in the ARB: @VikramZutshi reviews “The Samurai Detectives” by Shōtarō Ikenami @PenguinUKBooks asianreviewofbooks.com/the-samurai-...

Today in the ARB: @davidchaffetz reviews “The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun: Literary Expression and the Natural World” by Ping Wang @UWAPress “highly readable and comprehensive” asianreviewofbooks.com/the-poetic-w...

Today in the ARB: Soni Wadhwa reviews “Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia” by Peggy Mohan (Hamish Hamilton India) asianreviewofbooks.com/father-tongu...

Fiction in English, recently reviewed in the ARB: “Half Light” by Mahesh Rao; “Lucky Seed” by Justinian Huang; “12 Years: My Messed-Up Love Story” by Chetan Bhagat asianreviewofbooks.com/category/rev...

Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window: The Sequel” by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, tr from Japanese by Yuki Tejima asianreviewofbooks.com/totto-chan-t...

Drops today: this week's ARB podcast features host Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Justin Marozzi, author of “Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery & the Slave Trade in the Islamic World” @penguinukbooks.bsky.social @pegasus-books.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Today in the ARB: Francis P Sempa reviews “The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War” by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes @oxfordacademic.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-battle-o...

Today in the ARB: Shehrazade Zafar-Arif reviews “Half Light” by Mahesh Rao @PushkinPress @PenguinIndia asianreviewofbooks.com/half-light-b...

ARB Newsletter for 10 Nov 2025: Reviews and podcasts of fiction, fiction in translation, current affairs, history plus letter from literary and book festivals around the region mailchi.mp/1022af34069d...

Today in the ARB: Vikram Zutshi's Letter from the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival asianreviewofbooks.com/letter-from-...

Today in the ARB: Joshua Bird reviews “Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan” by Joanna Lillis @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/silk-mirage-...

Today in the ARB: Melanie Ho reviews “Lucky Seed” by Justinian Huang @harpercollins.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/lucky-seed-b...

Today in the ARB: Yorim Spoelder review “Glorious Failure: The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India” by Robert Ivermee @hurstpublishers.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/glorious-fai...

Drops today: this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcasts features co-hosts Nicholas Gordon and Prarthana Prakash talk to Harini Nagendra, author of “Into the Leopard’s Den”, the latest novel in the Bangalore Detective Club series @pegasus-books.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Today in the ARB: Letter from Sharjah ~ Rosie Milne visits the Sharjah Publishers Conference asianreviewofbooks.com/letter-from-...

Today in the ARB: Ben Woollard reviews “Archipelago of the Sun” by Yoko Tawada, tr from Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani @ndbooks.bsky.social @grantabooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/archipelago-...

ARB newsletter for 3 November 2025: reviews, announcements, podcasts of history, military history, ancient history and art, biography, new fiction mailchi.mp/92bb21c53579...

Today in the ARB: David Chaffetz reviews “Rock Art and its Legacy in Myth and Art Petroglyphs from Eurasia, Arabia and North Africa” by Christophe Baumer and Teresa Weber @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/rock-art-and...

Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “The Stateless Central Asian Merchant: The Life of Haim Aghajan Abraham Based on His Journal 1897-1986” by Dahlia Abraham-Klein asianreviewofbooks.com/the-stateles...

Today in the ARB: Mahitosh Gopal reviews “12 Years: My Messed-Up Love Story” by Chetan Bhagat (HarperCollins India) asianreviewofbooks.com/12-years-my-...

This week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Stephen C Mercado (“Japanese Spy Gear and Special Weapons: How Noborito’s Scientists & Technicians Served in the 2nd World War & the Cold War”) @penswordbooks asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “Chinese on the Beach” by Vanessa Fabiano (Ybernia) asianreviewofbooks.com/chinese-on-t...

ARB newsletter for 27 October 2025: Reviews and podcasts of memoir, history, travel, literature in translation from Chinese and Malayalam mailchi.mp/da232ea244ac...

New Book Announcement: “The Boy with the Jade” by Charles Bush (HTF Publishing) asianreviewofbooks.com/new-book-ann...

Today in the ARB: Kristen Yee reviews “Silk Roads: A Flavor Odyssey with Recipes from Baku to Beijing” by Anna Ansari (DK) asianreviewofbooks.com/silk-roads-a...

Today in the ARB: Mahika Dhar reviews “Mother Mary Comes To Me” by Arundhati Roy @penguinukbooks.bsky.social @scribnerbooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/mother-mary-...

Today in the ARB: James Herndon reviews “Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History” by Fahad Ahmad Bishara ... who “brings a lost world to life, combining a scholar’s rigor with a poet’s voice” @ucpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/monsoon-voya...

"The Third Love" by Hiromi Kawakami, tr from Japanese by Ted Goossen [ARB review asianreviewofbooks.com/the-third-lo... reviewed in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Aletta André and Abhimanyu Kumar, authors of “The House of Awadh: A Hidden Tragedy” (HarperCollins India) asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Today in the ARB:Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “Stain” by Sarah Joseph, tr from Malayalam by Sangeetha Sreenivasan @PenguinIndia asianreviewofbooks.com/stain-by-sar...

Today in the ARB: Angus Stewart reviews “Delicious Hunger”, stories by Hai Fan, tr from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social, Ethos Books asianreviewofbooks.com/delicious-hu...

ARB newsletter for 20 October 2025: reviews, podcasts and announcements of history, ancient history, fiction, short stories and poetry mailchi.mp/dbac15175091...

Always a great source of reviews and news of Asian literature in translation.

Today in the ARB: “The Ruins”, poems by Ye Hui, tr from Chinese by Dong Li @deepvellum.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-ruins-by...

New Book Announcement: “Chinese on the Beach”, Stories by Vanessa Fabiano @ybernia-books.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/new-book-ann...

Today in the ARB: Rosie Milne reviews the 25th anniversary edition of “Vermillion Eye” by Tunku Halim (Penguin Southeast Asia) asianreviewofbooks.com/vermillion-e...

Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features Nicholas Gordon in conversation with @moudhy.bsky.social about her new book “Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History” @wwnorton.com @hachetteuk.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Today in the ARB: Mahitosh Gopal reviews “Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore’s Interregnum” by Vikram Sampath (Vintage Books) asianreviewofbooks.com/tipu-sultan-...

Today in the ARB: “Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood”, a “a page-turner of a history”, by Steve Tibble @yalepress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/assassins-an...

ARB newsletter for 13 October 2025: reviews, podcasts of history, travel-writing, fiction, short stories and poetry in translation mailchi.mp/213c3aed0162...

oday in the ARB: “Falling for Saigon” by Connla Stokes @brixtonink.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/falling-for-...

Today in the ARB: Jane Wallace reviews the Booker Prize-shortlisted “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” by Kiran Desai @penguinukbooks.bsky.social @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-loneline...

Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “Bad Bad Girl” by Gish Jen @grantabooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/bad-bad-girl...

rops today: this week's @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features @jemmawei.bsky.social, author of “The Original Daughter” @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social. Co-hosting this week with host Nicholas Gordon is Naomi Xu Elegant asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Poetry by Gillian Sze, Sabyasachi Nag, Zhang Zao and Mani Rao, recently reviewed in the ARB asianreviewofbooks.com/category/rev...

Today in the ARB: David Chaffetz writes up the Louvre's Mamluk exhibitions and catalogue asianreviewofbooks.com/mamluks-louv...

Today in the ARB: Soni Wadhwa reviews “Whose Urdu Is It Anyway? Stories by Non-Muslim Urdu Writers”, ed and tr by Rakhshanda Jalil (Simon and Schuster India) asianreviewofbooks.com/whose-urdu-i...

ARB newsletter for 6 October 2025: reviews and podcasts on fiction, tech, politics and history, plus recent postings from the @asianaffairs.bsky.social on Brunei and Sri Lanka mailchi.mp/3a00f2c12154...