Asian Reads

Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in l...

Set in an age of ecological catastrophe, Icelight eloquently accepts transience yet asserts the robustness of hopeIcelight, Ranjit Hoskote's eighth...

Allen Ginsberg called Michaux a genius, and Jorge Luis Borges said that his work is without equal in the literature of our time. Henri Michaux (189...

Fairoz is a book-length poetry sequence in which Moniza Alvi explores an imagined teenage girl's susceptibility to extremism. The book's fragmented...

"For years my life had been a string of temporary work in factories and call centres or unemployed. Approaching 30 and disillusioned with life in G...

Aiaigasa--1. (adverb) under one umbrella 2. (noun) a romantically shared umbrella.Here, under one umbrella, shared by author and illustrator, are p...

Princess, poet, pacifist ... and World War II spy. The enigmatic, indefinable Noor Inayat Khan was an unlikely recruit to the SOE as an undercover ...

A SPIN, Electric Literature, Book Riot, and The Catholic Post Best Poetry Collection of 2022 Finalist for the RSL Ondaatje Prize & Forward Pr...

The Czech Manuscripts is dedicated to one of the most important literary forgeries on the model of Macpherson's Ossianic poetry. The Queen's Court ...

For over a decade, international poets Alvin Pang (Singapore) and George Szirtes (UK) have met time and again-as friends and fellow wordsmiths on p...

Selected poems, songs, and letters by famous Scottish poet Robert Burns translated into modern English. Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns wro...

In 712 Stanza Homes for the Sun Cat Chong gives voice to populations at the intersections of gender, literary genre, disability, race, and chronic ...

Rachel is stuck - from two different backgrounds but without one clear identity. And with her Indian Grandfather's health declining and her Father'...

Light-footed, full of humour and independence of spirit, the poems in Amy Abdullah Barry's debut are prompted by wonder and appreciation, forming a...

Light-footed, full of humour and independence of spirit, the poems in Amy Abdullah Barry's debut are prompted by wonder and appreciation, forming a...

Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems o...