Newly-published Việt Nam : A History from Earliest Times to the Present ,   by Ben Kiernan   explores the history of the different peopl...

Asian Books Blog is based in Singapore – the Lion City.  Lucía Damacela keeps an eye on local listings. What: An annual event, the Sin...

Asian Books Blog is based in Singapore. Our regular column Lion City Lit explores in-depth what’s going on in the City-State, lit-wise...

Click here for my review of The Accusation / Bandi, in Asian Review of Books.

500 Words From  is a series of guest posts from writers, in which they talk about their latest books.  UK-based Tim Symonds writes Sherlo...

The Man Booker International Prize celebrates fiction from around the world translated into English. The judges have now revealed the sho...

Ameena Saiyid, Managing Director of Oxford University Press, Pakistan (OUP), has just announced in Karachi that to celebrate 70 years of Pa...