Most great cities have criminal underbellies. London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Moscow, Istanbul—all these have nurtured notorious criminal networks....
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In this novel of political activisim in 1960s Calcutta, Mukherjee's writing has fluent precision and a fine ear for the...
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Perhaps no place on earth has spawned more poets than the lower delta of Bengal, and nowhere has poetry been...
Rereading the latest political biography of the Bihar chief minister in the middle of a contentious general election prompts some...
Two new books on China: ‘Age of Ambition’ and ‘Leftover Women’ gauge social upheaval Evan Osnos appears to be almost...
Hisaki Matsuura, a professor in the French department at Tokyo University, is clearly comfortable in the place where the gothic...
Librarians in Chaoyang district, a bustling business and residential hub in northeast Beijing, has launched a program on WeChat– one...
Yandi Mbeki (pseudonym), the 39 year-old wife of a diplomat from South Africa, Googled "English bookshops in Beijing" on her...
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