New Book Announcement: “The Lake of Tears” by Veeraporn Nitiprapha (River Books) asianreviewofbooks.com/new-book-ann...

Today in the ARB: Stephen Mercado reviews “A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan” by Sayaka Chatani @stanfordpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/a-nation-wit...

Today in the ARB: Jonathan Han reviews “The Traitor” by Kobo Abe tr Mark Gibeau: "perhaps a premonition of a new age, and a point of reflection for those left behind" @ColumbiaUP asianreviewofbooks.com/the-traitor-...

This week in the ARB [newsletter for 30 March 2026]: reviews, podcasts, announcements of fiction, fiction in translation, art history, history, WW2 mailchi.mp/7693ca532b17...

Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “American Han” by Lisa Lee @algonquinbooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/american-han...

Today in the ARB: Phyllis Teo reviews “Sustaining Landscape: Governance and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture” by Wang Gerui (HKU Press) asianreviewofbooks.com/sustaining-l...

“Written by Jose Ando—a winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize—and translated by Kalau Almony—known for his translations of unique and intense stories—Jackson Alone is a slim novel that gut-punches weirdness.” —Mahika Dhar

Today in the ARB: Mahika Dhar reviews the prize-winning “Jackson Alone” by Jose Ando tr from Japanese by Kalau Almony @bonnierbooksuk.bsky.social @sohopress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/jackson-alon...

Today in the ARB: Vikram Zutshi reviews “The Complex” by Karan Mahajan (@vikingbooks.bsky.social Grove Press) asianreviewofbooks.com/the-complex-...

Drops today: this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast features host Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, author of “The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War” @oxunipress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

New Book Announcement: “The Memory Tree” (Series) by Veena Naravane (Bare Bones) asianreviewofbooks.com/new-book-ann...

Today in the ARB: Prarthana Prakash reviews “Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire” by Julia Stephens @princetonupress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/worldly-afte...

Today in the ARB: “Japan: A History in Objects” by Angus Lockyer @thamesandhudson @britishmuseum asianreviewofbooks.com/japan-a-hist...

The ARB this week [Newsletter for 23 March 2026]: reviews, podcasts and announcements of fiction, fiction in translation, history, literary history mailchi.mp/c2458271c80e...

New Book Announcement: “Taiwanese Face, Chinese Masks: Yang Mu and His Postcolonial Poetry” by Wen-chi Li @CambriaPress asianreviewofbooks.com/new-book-ann...

Today in the ARB: Sankha Maji reviews “Railsong” by Rahul Bhattacharya @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/railsong-by-...

Archaeology in the ARB: “The Dig: Keeladi & the Politics of India’s Past”, “Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan: From the Earliest Times to the Mongol Conquest”, “Island at the Edge of the World: Forgotten History of Easter Island” by Mike Pitts asianreviewofbooks.com/tag/archaeol...

Today in the ARB: Ben Woollard reviews “Kokun: The Girl from the West” by Nahoko Uehashi tr from Japanese Cathy Hirano @europaeditions.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/kokun-the-gi...

Literary history in the ARB: “The Tree Within: The Mexican Nobel Laureate writer Octavio Paz’s Years in India” by Indranil Chakravarty, “The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun” by Ping Wang, “Chinese Songs in a French Key” by Pauline Yu asianreviewofbooks.com/tag/literary...

Today in the ARB: Stuart Lloyd reviews “Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island” by Mike Pitts @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @marinerbooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/island-at-th...

I created a shoppable (is that a word?) list for UK readers of (almost) all the books to have featured on the Asian Review of Books (@asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social) podcast.

Drops today: this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast features Nicholas Gordon and Prarthana Prakash @pushkinpress.com asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Today in the ARB: Stephen Mercado reviews “Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During World War II” by Evelyn Iritani @fsgbooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/safe-passage...

Today in the ARB: Bárbara Fernández-Melleda reviews “The Tree Within: The Mexican Nobel Laureate writer Octavio Paz’s Years in India” by Indranil Chakravarty (Penguin India) asianreviewofbooks.com/the-tree-wit...

The ARB this week [Newsletter for 16 March 2026]: reviews, podcasts and announcements for fiction, fiction in translation from Arabic, Iranian and Southeast Asian history, current affairs mailchi.mp/d58adbc3093a...

New Book Announcement: “American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism” by Scott Kurashige @ucpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/new-book-ann...

Today in the ARB: Lucas Tse reviews “The Last of Earth”, historical novel by Deepa Anappara @oneworldbooks.bsky.social @randomhouse.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-last-of-...

Today in the ARB: Alan Ali Saeed reviews “Hyper” by Agri Ismaïl @coffeehousepress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/hyper-by-agr...

Today in the ARB: Rosie Milne reviews “The Raven of Ruwi”, short stories by Omani writer Hamoud Saud in a new translation from Zia Ahmed @syracuseup.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-raven-of...

Drops today: in this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast, Nicholas Gordon talks to to Olivier Hein about his recent book “Borneo: The History of an Enigma” @hurstpublishers.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Today in the ARB: Rosie Milne reviews “A Mask the Color of the Sky” by Bassem Khandaqji, Arabic Booker Prize winner, now in English translation by Addie Leak @europaeditions.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/a-mask-the-c...

Non-fiction in translation: “The Travelling Tree” by Michio Hoshino asianreviewofbooks.com/the-travelli...; “The Legacy of The Ryukyu Kingdom” by Takara Kurayoshi; “The Man Who Made Plants Write” by Sumana Roy asianreviewofbooks.com/excerpt-from...

Today in the ARB: David Chaffetz review “The Shah’s Party: And the Iranian Revolution That Followed” by Robert Templer @hurstpublishers.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-shahs-pa...

My Review of Michio Hoshino's The Travelling Tree now live on the Asian Review of Books!

This week in the ARB [Newsletter for 9 March 2026]: reviews, announcements and podcasts of Middle Eastern WW1 history, essays on art, modern classic Japanese travel-writing and Chinese literature in translation, poetry, history of religion mailchi.mp/11511b3d9d1b...

New Book Announcement: “My Home is Dissent” by Pooja Ugrani (Paper Wall) asianreviewofbooks.com/new-book-ann...

Today in the ARB: @Corker_Talker reviews “The Travelling Tree” by Michio Hoshino tr from Japanese by Eli KP William asianreviewofbooks.com/the-travelli...

New in @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social: My review of a female bildungsoman of sorts set in Shenzhen (and elsewhere!) amid China's shift to a market economy. Morality, class, and decency are pondered. The word “money” appears 57 more times than the word "life". asianreviewofbooks.com/my-destiny-b...

Today in ARB: @irapley.bsky.social reviews “The Ryukyu islands” by Gregory Smits @uchicagopress.bsky.social & “The Legacy of The Ryukyu Kingdom” by Takara Kurayoshi (JPIC) asianreviewofbooks.com/the-ryukyu-i...

Today in the ARB: Angus Stewart reviews “My Destiny” by Liang Xiaosheng tr from Chinese by Howard Goldblatt (Long Rover Press) asianreviewofbooks.com/my-destiny-b...

Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features Rian Thum, author of “Islamic China: An Asian History” @harvardpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Today in the ARB: Joshua Tan reviews “Art Is: A Journey into the Light” by Makato Fujimura @yalepress.bsky.social “Part memoir, part meditation on the practice that Makato Fujimura has popularized as 'slow art', 'Art Is' is pithy yet expressive” asianreviewofbooks.com/art-is-a-jou...

Today in the ARB: Francis Sempa reviews “The Arab Bureau: The Story of Britain’s Most Ingenious Intelligence Unit” by Eamonn Gearon @hurstpublishers.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-arab-bur...

The Indian Ocean in the ARB: “Driven by the Monsoons” by Barry Cunliffe, “Monsoon Voyagers” by Fahad Ahmad Bishara, “Divergent Worlds” by Amitav Acharya & Manjeet S Pardesi asianreviewofbooks.com?s=indian+ocean

New Book Announcement: “The Wu Ming-Yi Companion: Literature, Environment, and Translation through Compound Eyes”, edited by Michael Berry and Kuei-fen Chiu (Cambria Press) asianreviewofbooks.com/new-book-ann...

Today in the ARB: Jill Baker reviews “In Search of Green China” by Ma Tianjie @politybooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/in-search-of...

Today in the ARB: Jonathan Han reviews “The Yellow Metaphor: Poems from Assam” by Jiban Narah, tr from Assamese by Anindita Kar asianreviewofbooks.com/the-yellow-m...

Today in the ARB: Vikram Zutshi reviews “Rebel English Academy” by Mohammed Hanif @groveatlantic.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/rebel-englis...

Drops today: in this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast, host Nicholas Gordon talks to Warwick Ball about his recent book “Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan: From the Earliest Times to the Mongol Conquest” @reaktionbooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Fiction recently reviewed in ARB: “Moonlight Saga” by Arupa Patangia Kalita (tr from Assamese by Ranjita Biswas), “The Waiter” by Kwan Ann Tan, “City Like Water” by Dorothy Tse (tr from Chinese by Natascha Bruce) asianreviewofbooks.com/category/rev...