Justin Marozzi has won the 2015 Ondaatje Prize for a book evoking the spirit of place with  Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood  (Allen ...

László Krasznahorkai, the innovative Hungarian author, has just been announced as the winner of this year's Man Booker International Pri...

Asian Books Blog is not a review site. If you want reviews, see the  Asian Review of Books . Here is a list of its newest reviews and round...

A rojak* of items that caught my eye this week… Flood of Fire Flood of Fire , by Amitav Ghosh, book 3 in his Ibis trilogy, which ex...

Eastlit is an English-language online journal and website focused on creative writing and art specifically from or connected to East and...

In Tuesday's post on the   Asia House Bagri Foundation Literature Festival, I said I'd check out how people in Asia could follow al...

On Tuesday, yet another blogger, Anata Bijoy Das,  was hacked to death in Bangladesh, for celebrating secularism and free speech, and for qu...