
Writing the Other America
Class divisions inflict lifelong scars in Elizabeth Strout’s fiction, especially when the psychic damage is not acknowledged.
Oh William!
by Elizabeth Strout
November 4, 2021 issue
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Pankaj Mishra is the author of Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire, among other books. His novel Run and Hide will be published early next year. (November 2021)
Writing the Other America
Class divisions inflict lifelong scars in Elizabeth Strout’s fiction, especially when the psychic damage is not acknowledged.
Oh William!
by Elizabeth Strout
November 4, 2021 issue
A Long & Undeclared Emergency
India for the last five years has been in a state of internal siege.
Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point
by Gyan Prakash
July 18, 2019 issue
God’s Oppressed Children
Sujatha Gidla’s ‘Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India’
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
by Sujatha Gidla
December 21, 2017 issue
Which India Matters?
An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions
by Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen
Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
by Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya
November 21, 2013 issue
Asia: ‘The Explosive Transformation’
Three new novels examine the perils and fantasies of capitalism in contemporary Asia
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
by Mohsin Hamid
Five Star Billionaire
by Tash Aw
Beggar’s Feast
by Randy Boyagoda
April 25, 2013 issue
Afghanistan: The Forgotten Conflict in Kashmir
Obama’s long speech on Afghanistan did not refer even once to India or Kashmir. Yet India has a large and growing presence in Afghanistan, and impoverished young Pakistanis, such as those who led the terrorist attack on Mumbai last November, continue to be indoctrinated by watching videos of Indian atrocities on Muslims in Kashmir. (Not much exaggeration is needed here: an Indian human rights group last week offered evidence of mass graves of nearly 3000 Muslims allegedly executed over the last decade by Indian security forces near the border with Pakistan.) Another terrorist assault on India is very likely; it will further stoke tensions between India and Pakistan, enfeebling America’s already faltering campaign against the Taliban and al Qaeda.
December 8, 2009
The Palestinian Poet Who Came Back
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century
by Adina Hoffman
December 3, 2009 issue
Sentimental Education in Shanghai
Fortress Besieged
by Qian Zhongshu, translated from the Chinese by Jeanne Kelly and Nathan K. Mao, with a foreword by Jonathan Spence
June 12, 2008 issue
The Revolt of the Monks
Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma
a report by Human Rights Watch
Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma
by Mary P. Callahan
The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma
by Thant Myint-U
"Burma/Myanmar: The Role of the Military in the Economy"
by David I. Steinberg
February 14, 2008 issue
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