November 2 marks the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, when the British government famously promised to establish a Jewish “national...
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Earlier this year, Mohsin Hamid’s fourth novel, Exit West, appeared, an ode to a future in which migration is as ordinary...
With the staggering rise of wealth inequality and the increasing concentration of ideas and access to an audience in the...
Editor's note: 'Depression' sets alarm bells ringing in individual and collective minds, raising ogres of doubt, fear, hopelessness... Bijaya Biswal...
How Indian publishing discovered its “Game of Thrones” and created a literary phenomenon. WHEN the world’s highest-earning novelist launches his...
Under-translated and overly vulnerable to censorship, the publishing communities of Southeast Asia nevertheless will soon be ‘making waves,’ according to one of...
The tradition of female writers from the Middle-East has been vastly growing in the twentieth century, with new generations of writers determined...
Bangladesh's English language literature over the years ... Ironically, it was the 1947 Partition and the carving out of East...
Editor's Note: fivebooks.com took this interview in 2009. They call it one of the saddest interviews on their site in...
Chapter Three The Nepalese and the Holy City ‘Banaras is not only a city, but a culture in itself —...
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