This week in Asian Review of Books

See the Asian Review of Books for ever-interesting discussion. Here are links to its newest reviews, excerpts, letters, essays, listings, translations, announcements, news items, and round ups:

Marrow by Yan Lianke reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back by Janice P Nimura reviewed by John D. Van Fleet
The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power by Jakub J Grygiel and A Wess Mitchell reviewed by Francis P Sempa
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima by Noriko Manabe reviewed by Nicholas Gordon
Announcement of the inaugural Hong Kong History Book Prize 
Quixotica: Poems East of la Mancha: A call for submissions 

Q & A: Anne Elizabeth Moore

Graphic novels are wildly popular in Asia, but how about comics journalism?  This mingles the techniques of graphic novels with those of investigative journalism.  Chicago-based Anne Elizabeth Moore is one of its leading proponents.  In May, she will publish Threadbare: Clothes, Sex & Trafficking, a collection of reporting, research, and art, exploring, amongst other things, how the darker side of the global fashion industry has roots in Asia.

The Sunday Post

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

Buku Fixi at London Book Fair

The London Book Fair (LBF) takes place next week, April 12 -14. For the first time ever, there will be a Malaysian booth showcasing independent publishers with no government or corporate funding. The country’s biggest independent publisher, the award-winning Buku Fixi, which specialises in contemporary urban fiction in both Malay and English, will be there. Moreover, the company’s English-language imprint, Fixi Novo, is to launch an ambitious new trilogy of anthologies during the Fair.

Just quickly...

This is not exactly literary (!), but you may be interested - my piece for UK Telegraph on expat men doing the dirty with Asian babes... 

This week in Asian Review of Books

See the Asian Review of Books for ever-interesting discussion. Here are links to its newest reviews, excerpts, letters, essays, listings, translations, news items, and round ups:

Announcement of the inaugural Hong Kong History Book Prize 
Eight Juxtapositions: China Through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo by Jeffrey Wasserstrom reviewed by Jonathan Chatwin*
A Painter Prince, an excerpt from The Ivory Throne by Manu S Pillai
The Face: Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw reviewed by Peter Gordon

Outside reading: links to recent articles, interviews and commentary

* Jeffrey Wasserstrom's guest post for Asian Books Blog.

The Sunday Post

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