Jul 11, 2015 10:17 AM

Beatson's Mutiny: The Turbulent Career of a Victorian Soldier
Writer Richard Stevenson takes readers through an evocative exploration of the life of William Beatson and his struggles through various foreign entanglements
Jul 11, 2015 10:16 AM

North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
Detailed descriptions of contemporary life in North Korea, from shifts in fashions and policy changes, are on offer based on meticulous research
Jul 11, 2015 10:14 AM

The Not-So-Virtuous Cluster
A cultural fault line in Silicon Valley has divided the American high school into labels of those from families of Asian background and everyone else
Jul 04, 2015 10:04 AM

On Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
The prescient novel offers a look at the power of distortion under the totalitarian state and the politics of truth
Jul 04, 2015 09:52 AM

Sleeping on Jupiter
A gripping novel centered on the trauma of child abuse and rape in India draws readers into the complexities of a personal journey for uneasy peace
Jul 04, 2015 09:52 AM

No Direction Rome
A character-driven travel novel follows an Indian expat in Rome struggling with his aimlessness
Jun 27, 2015 12:28 PM

With the People in Mind
A series of exhibitions on 19th century Russian and Polish art offers an examination into the sometimes convoluted and chaotic shared histories of the post-Communist countries
Jun 27, 2015 12:27 PM

The Annotated Malay Archipelago
Sprawling survey by Victorian English naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace offers kaleidoscopic view on regional flora and fauna
Jun 27, 2015 12:27 PM

The Book of Gold Leaves
Complex characterizations, deft plotting and collisions of culture mark this excellent second novel by Mirza Waheed
Jun 21, 2015 13:16 PM

A Burmese Heart
In an excerpt from this recently released novel, Yangon-born writer Tinsa Maw-Naing recalls the exile of her husband BoYan Naing in 1965
Jun 21, 2015 13:10 PM

Hunters in the Dark
A British schoolteacher trades in his last savings for an adventure through Cambodia that finally gives him more high-stakes intrigue than he could ever ask for
Jun 21, 2015 13:08 PM

Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy
The true story of the Chinese-born Kawashima Yoshiko who would later become a spy for Japan is as much a tale of survival as it is scandal
Jun 13, 2015 09:17 AM

Motherland: In Search of Missing Girlhoods
Two Americans, adopted as babies from China, returned to their hometowns in Jiangsu to find out how daughters in rural China grow up
Jun 13, 2015 09:17 AM

The Tusk That Did the Damage
This atmospheric novel digs deeply into the devastation that the ivory trade has wrought on elephants in South India
Jun 13, 2015 09:17 AM

The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures
Conservationist William deBuys describes the forces driving the saola to extinction in his travels through Laos to document the species
Jun 06, 2015 12:07 PM

The Eagle and the Dragon: Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the 16th Century
Gruzinski focuses not so much on providing new historical detail as in elucidating the parallel and intertwined paths of these two events and their combined antecedents and consequences
Jun 06, 2015 12:07 PM

Climate Change Governance in Chinese Cities
Although the authors are cautious, the picture they paint is ultimately profoundly dispiriting on the decision-making processes behind climate policy
Jun 06, 2015 12:05 PM

Dream of the Red Chamber
An upcoming production of Cao Xueqin's classic has brought together China's top operatic talents and may offer an ending with a twist
May 31, 2015 09:40 AM

The Long-Run Return
Wu Shaoxiang's sculptures offer an analysis on mechanisms of power at close range
May 31, 2015 09:29 AM

The First Firangis
The lives of foreigners in India throughout the centuries are offered as a series of engrossing profiles