I am closing the blog for August as I am spending the month travelling, and it's too difficult to keep posting from boats, trains, air...

Indie Spotlight is our monthly column on self-publishing. This month our indie correspondent  Siobhan Daiko  talks to Malika Gandhi , who...

I’m never sure what to make of longlists for literary prizes – it’s quite a chasm between being on a list and winning a prize, even when th...

49 authors under 45 from across Asia have today been published in a themed edition of the Griffith Review , one of Australia’s leading li...

See the  Asian Review of Books  for ever-interesting discussion . Here is a list of its newest reviews, excerpts, letters, essays, and roun...

A rojak* of items that caught my eye this week…

Asian Books Blog is based in Singapore. Lion City Lit explores what’s going on in the City-State, lit-wise. Here, Verena Tay talks about...