Devika Misra reports. Singaporean-born, Paris-based Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a poet, translator, musician, and now novelist. Her debut work of...

 No Funeral for Nazia is Pakistani journalist and writer Taha Kehar’s third and latest work of fiction. The story highlights some of the com...

Devika Misra reports on a conversation between Rachel Heng, and some of her readers.  Rachel Heng was born and raised in Singapore. She wri...

Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy ...

The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura is a crime thriller set in modern-day Japan about an experienced pickpocket named Nishimura as he prowls the...

Felicia Nay was born in Germany and spent part of her childhood in Spain. Later, she studied in China and worked in Hong Kong. She now liv...

All She Was Worth  is a 1992 noir mystery written by Miyuki Miyabe, one of Japan's most famous genre writers, including crime fictio...

Edogawa Ranpo is synonymous with Japanese horror and mystery fiction. Using a pen name based off of Edgar Allen Poe, (try saying it three t...

Sun Jung received her Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne and was a research fellow at both Victoria University and the National Univer...

One of the most interesting novels to come out in translation this year is My Travels in Ding Yi (ACA Publishing, 2019) by Shi Tiesheng (...

Paul French, the bestselling author of Midnight in Peking and City of Devils , writes Asian Books Blog's monthly Tsundoku column.  He ...

Ryu Murakami is a Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist and filmmaker. He explores human nature through dark themes of disillusi...