Promoting Asian Literature 📚 📰 ✒️ Published by @RSAsianAffairs
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📖 Today, Martin Laflamme reviews “The Japanese Woodblock Prints Companion” by Andreas Marks, published by Ludion.
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🗞️ The ARB newsletter drops today, featuring fiction and non-fiction reviews, the latest ARB podcast episode and a new book announcement.
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Can a civilization ever be "bombed into the Stone Age"?
📚️ Today, David Chaffetz (@DavidChaffetz) reviews “Reassembling Knowledge: Science, Medicine, and Philosophy in Sasanian and Early Islamic Iraq and Iran” by Thomas Benfey @CambridgeUP
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📚️ Today, David Chaffetz (@DavidChaffetz) reviews “Reassembling Knowledge: Science, Medicine, and Philosophy in Sasanian and Early Islamic Iraq and Iran” by Thomas Benfey @CambridgeUP
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📚Read Vikram's review at the link below!
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Reading The Big Book of Kashmiri Literature was a unique experience. Fourteenth-century mystic verse, metaphysical ghazals, Persian couplets, rice planting chants, radio plays, flash fiction and novel excerpts — Seven centuries in one volume. Edited by Onaiza Drabu.
✒️ Today, Vikram Zutshi (@VikramZutshi) reviews “The Big Book of Kashmiri Literature” edited by Onaiza Drabu @PenguinIndia
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✒️ Today, Vikram Zutshi (@VikramZutshi) reviews “The Big Book of Kashmiri Literature” edited by Onaiza Drabu @PenguinIndia
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🎧 This week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork Podcast features Nicholas Gordon (@nickrigordon) in conversation with Jeremy Simmons, author of “Sea of Treasures“ @PrincetonUPress
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📚️ Today, Ben Woollard reviews “Tree: My Encounters with Trees” by Aya Kōda and translated by Charlotte Goff @PenguinBooks @HarperOneBooks
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🎉 Congratulations to Jemimah Wei (@jemmawei) and all the other authors shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize (Prose)!
✒️ Read Thảo Tô's 2025 review of “The Original Daughter” at the link below!
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📖 This Tuesday, Susan Blumberg-Kason (@Susan_BK) reviews “Sutra Americana” by Monona Wali @UWiscPress
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🗞️ The ARB newsletter drops today, featuring a round up of recent fiction and non-fiction reviews, the latest ARB podcast episode and more.
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✒️ Today, Soni Wadhwa (@soni_archivist) reviews “Who Owns the Past?” by Shaan Kashyap @VintageBooks
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📖 This Friday, Shehrazade Zafar-Arif reviews “The Courtesan, Her Lover, and I” by Tarana Husain Khan @HachetteIndia
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🎧️ This week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast features host Nicholas Gordon (@nickrigordon) in conversation with Michael Dillon, author of “Shanghai: The Story of China’s Most Dynamic City” @YalePress
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✒️ Today, Peter Gordon reviews “Hong Kong Art Deco Architecture: Unveiling the Hidden Heritage” by Prudence Leung Kwok Lau and Vanessa Winghei Yeung @CUHKofficial
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📚️ Today, Susan Blumberg-Kason (@Susan_BK) reviews “Have You Seen Romit?” by Chital Mehta @UnivNebPress
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🗞️ This week's ARB Newsletter has arrived! Catch up on the latest book reviews, podcast episode and more.
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Asian Review of Books retweeted
Bombay Tabloid reads as though somebody has fed the author espresso, cocaine and the collected slang of South Bombay. The voice is hyper-caffeinated, coked up to the gills and determined to entertain at almost any cost.
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When the samurai class was disbanded, thousands of trained, armed men found themselves with nothing left to fight for. Two and a half centuries of Tokugawa peace turned these “warrior dropouts” into gamblers, pimps, and protection men.
YAKUZA reviewed.
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