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"Famous Last Questions: A Confused Woman's Investigations into the Country that Shaped Her" by Sanjana Ramachandran reviewed in Scroll scroll.in/article/108405…

Recent fiction in translation: “Someone to Watch Over You” by Kumi Kimura, “Elephant Herd” by Zhang Guixing, “Old Kiln” by Jia Pingwa asianreviewofbooks.com/tag/translatio…

"Rejection" by Tony Tulathimutte reviewed in London Review of Books lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

“Old Kiln” by Jia Pingwa [ARB review asianreviewofbooks.com/old-kiln-by-ji…] reviewed in The Spectator spectator.co.uk/article/maoist…

In the podcast: The Russians came late to Japan, arriving after the Portuguese and other European powers. But as soon as they arrived, Russia tried to use spies and espionage to learn more about their neighbor—with various degrees of success. asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with-j…

Today in the ARB: “The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear” by Nan Z Da, who "has been teaching Shakespeare's play -- she says -- for more than six years. One cannot help but envy her students." Princeton University Press asianreviewofbooks.com/the-chinese-tr…

"The deeply claustrophobic nature of Kimura's writing and Tejima's translation supports one of the novel’s central ideas: small-town Japan can be a very close-minded place." asianreviewofbooks.com/someone-to-wat…

“Mendell Station” by JB Hwang reviewed in The Associated Press apnews.com/article/book-r…

Today in the ARB: Soni Wadhwa reviews “The Tiger’s Share” by Keshava Guha John Murray Press Hachette UK Hachette India asianreviewofbooks.com/the-tigers-sha…

ARB review of “From Southeast Asia to Indo-Pacific: Culture, Identity, and the Return to Geopolitics” by Amitav Acharya asianreviewofbooks.com/from-southeast…

“If you had no interest in 'Lear' but some interest in contemporary Chinese history, then you might change your mind about Lear after the comparison,” writes Nan D Za in “The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear” asianreviewofbooks.com/the-chinese-tr…

"Tiger Lessons" by Sannapureddy Venkatarami Reddy, tr from Telugu by Narasimha Kumar, reviewed in Scroll scroll.in/article/108434…

"'The Tiger's Share' should be seen as a novel not in the way it captures its times but how its times react to it" asianreviewofbooks.com/the-tigers-sha…

In this Off the Page episode, Nicholas Gordon (Asian Review of Books) and author Bin Yang talk about DISCOVERED BUT FORGOTTEN and the linkages between China, the Maldives and the Indian Ocean. buff.ly/jm1ZOYW #ChIndiaOcean #ChinMaldvian New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) Asian Review of Books

Drops today: this week's ARB New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) podcast Nicholas Gordon talks to Sanjena Sathian about her recent novel “Goddess Complex” Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with-s…

ARB review of “The Tiger’s Share” by Keshava Guha asianreviewofbooks.com/the-tigers-sha…

"Theory and Practice" by Michelle de Kretser reviewed in London Review of Books lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

Today in the ARB: Elizabeth Lawrence reviews “New Story of the Stone”, an early Chinese science fiction novel by Wu Jianren tr Liz Evans Weber Columbia University Press asianreviewofbooks.com/new-story-of-t…

"Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India" by Srinath Raghavan, reviewed in Telegraph telegraphindia.com/books/when-ind…

"Using Shakespeare to understand China is something of a bankshot... that Da is able to spin this analogy may say more about Shakespeare and Lear than it does about China" asianreviewofbooks.com/the-chinese-tr…