Asian Review of Books
@asianreviewofbooks
Now published by the @asianaffairs.bsky.social Royal Society for Asian Affairs, the Asian Review of Books is a dedicated pan-Asia book review publication. Read us at asianreviewofbooks.com
📰 Today in the ARB: Rosie Milne reviews "The Editor" by Jennifer Lindsay, published by Monsoon Books. asianreviewofbooks.com/the-editor-b...
🗞️ This week's newsletter dropped today, featuring book reviews, new book announcements and the ARB Podcast. 👇 Catch up at the link below buff.ly/VQN80ks
📰 Over the weekend in the ARB: David Chaffetz reviews “Exquisite Things and Strange Wonders” by Amir Khusraw Dihlavi and Alyssa Gabbay (eds. and trans.) @harvardpress.bsky.social buff.ly/eva3eZs
📰 Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews Thao Thai's "The Seekers of Deer Creek", published by Quercus. buff.ly/quNgY9K
🗞️ This week's newsletter dropped today, featuring book and poetry reviews, new book announcements, the ARB Podcast, and news about the RSAA Medal's awarding to Tuttle Publishing. Catch up at the link below 👇 mailchi.mp/6b230dd086aa...
We are delighted to announce that the Royal Society for Asian Affairs has awarded the 2026 RSAA Medal to Tuttle Publishing, in recognition of its sustained and distinguished contribution to humanity's knowledge and understanding of Asia through nearly eight decades of publishing.
Join us on 15 July for the Royal Society for Asian Affairs' annual Lord Denman Memorial Lecture with the Rt Hon Baroness Warsi PC. This will be followed by a reception with wine, canapés and music to celebrate the Society's 125th anniversary. 🎟️ Lecture: £25 | Reception: £25 Link in comments.
🗞️ This week's newsletter dropped today, featuring reviews of fiction and non-fiction, new poetry announcements, the ARB Podcast, and a featured essay from Jessica Sequeira. Read it here: mailchi.mp/4b0b4f9f284d...
📰 This week in the ARB: Kateryna Shabelnyk reviews "Shift" by Cho Yeeun, translated by Yewon Jung @honfordstar.bsky.social. asianreviewofbooks.com/shift-by-cho...
🗞️ This week's newsletter dropped today, featuring reviews of fiction and non-fiction, new book announcements and the ARB Podcast. Read it here: mailchi.mp/012ae9b4772d...
📰 Today in the ARB: @susanbk.bsky.social reviews "The Moys of New York and Shanghai" by Charlotte Brooks @ucpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-moys-of-...
📚️ Today in the ARB: Jonathan Han reviews "Lady No" by Kim Hyesoon, translated from Korean by Jack Saebyok Jung asianreviewofbooks.com/lady-no-by-k...
Today in the ARB: Sankha Maji reviews "The Corpse Collector" from Juggernaut Books asianreviewofbooks.com/the-corpse-c...
This week in the ARB [newsletter for 27 April 2026]: reviews, podcasts and announcements of poetry, history, fiction, classics in translation mailchi.mp/ff9ce1080a53...
Linguistics: “Writing Between Languages: Translation & Multilingualism in Indian Francophone Writing”, “Pāṇini’s Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar”, “Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia” asianreviewofbooks.com/tag/linguist...
New Book Announcement: “Mantras of the Moon”, poetry by Srijani Mitra @UnivofALPress asianreviewofbooks.com/mantras-of-t...
Italy and Asia in the ARB: “Venice & the Mongols: The Eurasian Exchange That Transformed the Medieval World”, “Trading at the Edge of Empires Francesco Carletti’s World, c. 1600”, “The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals” asianreviewofbooks.com/category/rev...
Today in the ARB: @susan_BK reviews “The Young Will Remember” by Eve J Chung @penguinusa asianreviewofbooks.com/the-young-wi...
Today in the ARB: Jonathan Han reviews “Light Year”, poetry by Jennifer Wong "a meditation on separation and exile" @ninearchespress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/light-year-b...
Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Craig Perry, author of “Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History” @princetonupress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...
Today in the ARB: “Trading at the Edge of Empires Francesco Carletti’s World, c. 1600” @harvardpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/trading-at-t...
Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “Hooked: A Novel of Obsession” by Asako Yuzuki tr from Japanese by Polly Barton @eccobooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/hooked-a-nov...
This week in the ARB [Newsletter for 20 April 2026]: Reviews, podcasts and announcements of history, fiction and fiction in translation, children's books mailchi.mp/7be6f175781c...
New Book Announcement: “Samurai” by Rosina Buckland and Oleg Benesch @uwapress.uw.edu @britishmuseum.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/samurai-by-r...
Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “Asian Folktales for Children: Traditional Tales from Japan, Korea, China, India, The Philippines and Other Asian Lands” (Tuttle) asianreviewofbooks.com/asian-folkta...
Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts features host Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Jinwoo Park, author of spy thriller “Oxford Soju Club” @dundurnpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...
Today in the ARB: “The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals: How Practical Arithmetic Shaped Commerce and Mathematics in Western Europe, 1200-1600” by Raffaele Danna @harvardpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-craft-of...
The ARB this week [newsletter for 13 April 2026]: reviews, podcasts, announcements of fiction in translation from Vietnamese and Indonesian, history, intellectual history mailchi.mp/0fdda98f07fb...
Today in the ARB: Stephen Mercado reviews “Pyongyang on the Brink: Sixteen Crises That Shaped North Korea” by Fyodor Tertitskiy @hurstpublishers.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/pyongyang-on...
Today in the ARB: Vikram Zutshi reviews “The Dog Meows, the Cat Barks” by Eka Kurniawan translated from Indonesian by Annie Tucker @ndbooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-dog-meow...