Today in the ARB: James Herndon reviews “Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000” by Avner Greif, Guido Tabellini and Joel Mokyr @princetonupress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/two-paths-to...

Today in the ARB: Sankha Maji reviews “Our Madhopur Home” by Tripurari Sharan tr by Arunava Sinha (Simon & Schuster India) asianreviewofbooks.com/our-madhopur...

First ARB newsletter for 2026 covers fiction in translation from French and Japanese, history, sociology, photography, plus 2026 recaps: highlights, podcasts, translations mailchi.mp/c2900a8e112c...

Crime, recently reviewed in the ARB: “My Grandfather, the Master Detective” by Masateru Konishi, “The Samurai Detectives” by Shōtarō Ikenami, “Into the Leopard’s Den” by Harini Nagendra asianreviewofbooks.com/tag/crime/

Today in the ARB: “Islamic China: An Asian History” by Rian Thum @harvardpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/islamic-chin...

Today in the ARB: Francis Sempa reviews “Kirpa Ram Vij: The Volunteer Who Launched an Army” by Ramachandran Menon (ISEAS) asianreviewofbooks.com/kirpa-ram-vi...

2025: The Year in Reviews * Review Highlights asianreviewofbooks.com/the-year-in-... * Podcasts Highlights asianreviewofbooks.com/2025-highlig... * Translations Round-up asianreviewofbooks.com/2025-the-yea...

Today in the ARB: Melanie Ho reviews “My Grandfather, the Master Detective” by Masateru Konishi, tr from Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai @panmacmillan.bsky.social @putnambooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/my-grandfath...

For New Year's, an ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast from the (recent) archive: Nicholas Gordon talks to Kerry Brown about his book “The Great Reversal Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power” asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-arch...

The Year in Translation(s): A round-up of 2025 reviews of translations from Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai through Bengali, Malayalam and Hindi to Arabic, Yazidi, Kyrghyz and French: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, children’s books and classics. asianreviewofbooks.com/2025-the-yea...

Today in the ARB: A second volume of Gonçalo Lobo Pinheiro's innovative photo albums of Macau “O que foi, não volta a ser… Vol 2” asianreviewofbooks.com/o-que-foi-na...

Today in the ARB: 2025: A year in podcasts ~ a selection of 12 highlights from Nicholas Gordon's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts, fiction and non-fiction covering Ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary Korea and everywhere (and every period) in-between asianreviewofbooks.com/2025-highlig...

Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “The Old Fire” by Elisa Shua Dusapin, tr from French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins @dauntbookspub.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-old-fire...

The Year in Reviews: ARB Highlights from 2025 asianreviewofbooks.com/the-year-in-...

Drops today: this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast features Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Suraj Milind Yengde, author of “Caste: A Global Story” @hurstpublishers.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Today in the ARB: Asia in 2025: how did Asia fare in the “Best Books” lists of 2025? asianreviewofbooks.com/asia-in-2025...

Today in the ARB: Ben Woollard reviews “I Guess All We Have Is Freedom”, stories by Genpei Akasegawa (Katsuhiko Otsuji) (Kaya Press) asianreviewofbooks.com/i-guess-all-...

This week in the ARB [Newsletter for 22 December 2025]: reviews and podcasts of poetry, fiction, fiction in translation, history and finance mailchi.mp/c100d04ed00e...

Today in the ARB: Sankha Maji reviews “Andhar Bil” by Kalyani Thakur Charal tr from Bengali by Asit Biswas (ZubaanBooks @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social) asianreviewofbooks.com/andhar-bil-b...

Today in the ARB: “The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East” by Sean Mathews @hurstpublishers.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-new-byza...

Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “A Guardian and a Thief” by Megha Majumdar @aaknopf.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/a-guardian-a...

Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Joseph Torigian, author of “The Party’s Interests Come First” @stanfordpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Today in the ARB: Soni Whadhwa reviews “The Gallery of Upside Down Women”, poetry by Arundhathi Subramaniam @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-gallery-...

Today in ARB: James Herndon reviews "Running behind Lakshmi: The Search for Wealth in India's Stock Market" by Adil Rustomjee (Hachette India) asianreviewofbooks.com/running-behi...

The ARB this week [Newsletter for 16 Dec 2025]: fiction in translation from Japanese, memoir and history from India and Japan mailchi.mp/99d160b1ba49...

Today in the ARB: David Chaffetz reviews “Becoming Arab: the Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East” by Yossef Rapoport @princetonupress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/becoming-ara...

My review of When the Museum Is Closed, “an extended meditation on—almost an allegory for—what it truly means to be objectified, as told by a woman in love with a character who is, truly, a female object.”

Today in the ARB: @alisonfincher.bsky.social reviews “When the Museum Is Closed” by Emi Yagi tr from Japanese by Yuki Tejima @penguinukbooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/when-the-mus...

Today in the ARB: David Chaffetz reviews “The Indian Caliphate, Exiled Ottomans and the Billionaire Prince” by Imran Mulla @hurstpublishers.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-indian-c...

Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features host Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Andrew Bernstein, author of “Fuji: A Mountain In The Making” @princetonupress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Today in the ARB: Kabir Deb reviews “Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya” by Anuradha Roy (Hachette India @dauntbookspub.bsky.social) asianreviewofbooks.com/called-by-th...

Today the in ARB: @mhillis reviews “The Summer House” by Masashi Matsuie tr from Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani asianreviewofbooks.com/the-summer-h...

This week in the ARB [newsletter for 8 December 2025]: reviews and podcasts of history, fiction and fiction in translation mailchi.mp/c8ad2c884b38...

Historical fiction, recently reviewed in the ARB: “Spring Castle” by Michiko Ishimure, “The Samurai Detectives” by Shōtarō Ikenami, “All Things Under the Moon” by Ann YK Choi asianreviewofbooks.com/tag/historic...

My review of Grave of the Fireflies: “…the novella isn’t nearly as gut-wrenching as its visual counterpart. Instead, the narrator tells the story with matter-of-fact detachment that stirs up different emotions altogether.”

Today in the ARB: @alisonfincher.bsky.social reviews “Grave of the Fireflies” by Akiyuki Nosaka, tr from Japanese by Ginny Tapely Takemori (Penguin Classics) asianreviewofbooks.com/grave-of-the...

Today in the ARB: Shakir Mir reviews “City of Kashmir: Srinagar, A Popular History” by Sameer Hamdani @hurstpublishers.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/city-of-kash...

Stuart Lloyd reviews “Spring Castle”, historical fiction by Michiko Ishimure tr by Bruce Allen (Tuttle) asianreviewofbooks.com/spring-castl...

Drops today: this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast features host Nicholas Gordon in conversation with with Steve Tibblee, author of “Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood” @yalepress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

This week in the ARB [Newsletter for 1 December 2025]: reviews and podcasts of fiction, fiction in translation, history and economics mailchi.mp/fcb36af72cde...

Today in the ARB: David Chaffetz reviews “Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan: From the Earliest Times to the Mongol Conquest” by Warwick Ball @reaktionbooks.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/ancient-civi...

Chinese fiction in translation, recently reviewed in the ARB: “Women, Seated” by Zhang Yueran, “Delicious Hunger” by Hai Fan, “Portraits in White” by Kaori Lai asianreviewofbooks.com/tag/chinese/

Today in the ARB: Prarthana Prakash reviews “A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey” by Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian (HarperCollins India) asianreviewofbooks.com/a-sixth-of-h...

Asian history, recently reviewed in the ARB: “Fuji: A Mountain In The Making”, “The Emperor’s General: The Life and Times of Raja Man Singh of Amber”, “Exposed: A Visual History of the Destruction of the Indonesian Left” asianreviewofbooks.com/tag/history/

Today in the ARB: Angus Stewart reviews “Women, Seated” by Zhang Yueran, tr from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang asianreviewofbooks.com/women-seated...

Today in the ARB: Ian Rapley reviews “Fuji: A Mountain in the Making” by Andrew Bernstein asianreviewofbooks.com/fuji-a-mount...

Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features host Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Fahad Ahmad Bishara, author of “Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History” @ucpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Story collections from Indian, Japan, Thailand recently reviewed in the ARB: “The Only City: Bombay in Eighteen Stories”, edited by Anindita Ghose, “The Woman Dies” by Aoko Matsuda, “Skin Deep: Contemporary Thai Tales” by V Vinicchayakul asianreviewofbooks.com/tag/short-st...

Today in the ARB: Maximillian Morch reviews “River Traveller: Journeys on the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra from Tibet to the Bay of Bengal” by Sanjoy Hazarika (Speaking Tiger) asianreviewofbooks.com/river-travel...

Today in the ARB: Vikram Zutshi reviews “The Only City: Bombay in Eighteen Stories”, edited by Anindita Ghose (Harper Collins India) asianreviewofbooks.com/the-only-cit...