A rojak* of items that caught my eye this week… Can Xue Takes Prize   The eighth annual Best Translated Book Awards (BTBA) were ann...

Indie Spotlight is our monthly column on self-publishing. This month Raelee Chapman speaks to Fran Pickering the indie author of the po...

BookExpo America , (BEA) North America’s foremost publishing event featuring the latest in print and digital book publishing began yesterda...

I recently interviewed Xinran, for Asian Review of Books. See here: China’s One-Child Policy: an Interview With Xinran by Rosie Milne.

Asian Books Blog is not a review site. If you want reviews, see the  Asian Review of Books . Here is a list of its newest reviews, essays, ...

A rojak* of items that caught my eye this week… Mao Dun Literature Prize The Mao Dun Literary Prize ( 茅盾文学奖 ) is awarded every fo...

More than 150 writers from around the world, including Margaret Atwood, Amitav Ghosh, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Yann Martel, Salman Rushdie and C...