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Tuesday, 25 May 2021

A World To Win: Tim Harper's new history of global revolution

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Editor's note:  Our poetry column takes a break this month! Still an history undergraduate at heart, I simply couldn't pass up the o...
Wednesday, 19 May 2021

Pot-sticker dumplings and scarlet gloop: Nicky Harman reviews Maisie Chan’s Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths, 2021, and looks back at Timothy Mo’s Sour Sweet, 1982

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  Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths is a delightful story featuring the eponymous Danny, son of parents who run a Chinese takeaway, his frien...
Sunday, 16 May 2021

Lion City Lit: Celebrating Forty Years of Transforming Lives

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Asian Books Blog is based in Singapore, so we occasionally highlight book-related events in the city. Celebrating Forty Years of Transformin...
Sunday, 2 May 2021

The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura - A Fast-Paced Japanese Crime Story

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The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura is a crime thriller set in modern-day Japan about an experienced pickpocket named Nishimura as he prowls the...
Wednesday, 28 April 2021

Through Teachers' Eyes (Part 2!): Bringing Asian Poetry into the Classroom

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Editor's note:  In last month's column , we asked two writers and educators, Inez Tan (in California) and Ann Ang (in Singapore), to...
Sunday, 25 April 2021

Alfred Raquez and the French Experience of the Far East, 1898-1906 by William L. Gibson

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William L. Gibson has just published Alfred Raquez and the French Experience of the Far East, 1898-1906 , as part of the series, Routledge S...
Wednesday, 21 April 2021

The Mountain Whisperer – Another novel to add to the Jia Pingwa canon, reviewed by Nicky Harman

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Jia Pingwa, ‘China’s master story-teller’ as the launch event for   Mountain Whisperer  dubbed him, remains relatively unknown to the Englis...