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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 5h

Today in the ARB: “Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood”, a “a page-turner of a history”, by Steve Tibble @yalepress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/assassins-an...

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 1d

ARB newsletter for 13 October 2025: reviews, podcasts of history, travel-writing, fiction, short stories and poetry in translation mailchi.mp/213c3aed0162...

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 1d

oday in the ARB: “Falling for Saigon” by Connla Stokes @brixtonink.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/falling-for-...

Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Today in the ARB: Jane Wallace reviews the Booker Prize-shortlisted “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” by Kiran Desai @penguinukbooks.bsky.social @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-loneline...

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “Bad Bad Girl” by Gish Jen @grantabooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/bad-bad-girl...

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 5d

rops today: this week's @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features @jemmawei.bsky.social, author of “The Original Daughter” @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social. Co-hosting this week with host Nicholas Gordon is Naomi Xu Elegant asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Podcast with Jemimah Wei, author of “The Original Daughter”

Genevieve Yang, the protagonist of Jemimah Wei’s debut novel The Original Daughter works a dead-end job in Singapore, living in the shadow of her adopted younger sister, Arin, a rising movie star. …

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Poetry by Gillian Sze, Sabyasachi Nag, Zhang Zao and Mani Rao, recently reviewed in the ARB asianreviewofbooks.com/category/rev...

Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Today in the ARB: David Chaffetz writes up the Louvre's Mamluk exhibitions and catalogue asianreviewofbooks.com/mamluks-louv...

Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Today in the ARB: Soni Wadhwa reviews “Whose Urdu Is It Anyway? Stories by Non-Muslim Urdu Writers”, ed and tr by Rakhshanda Jalil (Simon and Schuster India) asianreviewofbooks.com/whose-urdu-i...

Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 8d

ARB newsletter for 6 October 2025: reviews and podcasts on fiction, tech, politics and history, plus recent postings from the @asianaffairs.bsky.social on Brunei and Sri Lanka mailchi.mp/3a00f2c12154...

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Today in the ARB: “Mirror”, poems by Zhang Zao, tr from Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (Zephyr Press) asianreviewofbooks.com/mirror-poems...

Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “The Morgue Keeper” by Ruyan Meng (7.13 Books) asianreviewofbooks.com/the-morgue-k...

Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 10d

Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “All Things Under the Moon”, Korea-set historical fiction by Ann YK Choi Simon & Schuster asianreviewofbooks.com/all-things-u...

Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 12d

Drops today: in this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast, Nicholas Gordon talks to Erin MB O’Halloran, author of “East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars” @stanfordpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

Podcast with Erin MB O’Halloran, author of “East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars”

Sometimes, these thinkers found refuge and common cause in others elsewhere in the Empire–such as between India and Egypt, as Erin O’Halloran explores in her book East of Empire: Egypt, India, and …

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 12d

Today in the ARB: James Herndon reviews “The New Geography of Innovation” by Mehran Gul (William Collins, Simon & Schuster) asianreviewofbooks.com/the-new-geog...

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 13d

Today in the ARB: “Rethinking Ourselves: Justice, Reform and Ignorance in Postnormal Times” by Anwar Ibrahim @hurstpublishers.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/rethinking-o...

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 15d

Today in the ARB: Susan Blumberg-Kason reviews “The Hong Kong Widow” by Kristen Loesch @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-hong-kon...

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 15d

This week in the ARB [newsletter for 29 Sep 2025]: reviews, podcasts, announcements of fiction, fiction in translation, history mailchi.mp/9b3f4dcc0742...

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 16d

Fiction in English in the ARB: “Indian Country” by Shobha Rao asianreviewofbooks.com/indian-count...; “Songs for the Brokenhearted” by Ayelet Tsabari asianreviewofbooks.com/songs-for-th...; “Into the Leopard’s Den” by Harini Nagendra asianreviewofbooks.com/into-the-leo...

Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 16d

Today in the ARB: Jianan Qian reviews “Portraits in White” by Kaori Lai tr from Chinese by Sylvia Li-chun Lin & Howard Goldblatt @columbiaup.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/portraits-in...

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 17d

New Book Announcement: “Fuji: A Mountain in the Making” by Andrew W Bernstein @princetonupress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/new-book-ann...

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 18d

Today in the ARB: Ria DHull reviews “Indian Country” by Shobha Rao @crownpublishing.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/indian-count...

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 19d

Today in the ARB: In this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast Prarthana Prakash joins Nicholas Gordon to talk to Rosinka Chaudhuri about her new book “India’s First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire” (Penguin India) asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 20d

ARB newsletter for 23 Sep 25: history, poetry, fiction, literature in translation mailchi.mp/503c301a6f3a...

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 20d

Today in the ARB: Stephen Mercado reviews “Triangle Republics: Cross-Border Between the Cold War Koreas and Japan” by I Jonathan Kief @ColumbiaUP asianreviewofbooks.com/triangle-rep...

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