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Disney merchandise shows frowning bear looking at blank sheet of paper – a symbol of opposition to censorshipYears after he became character non grata in China, Winnie the Pooh is exacting quiet revenge against the country’s government in the form of D…
Read MoreWith Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka and India’s Geetanjali Shree taking home two of publishing’s biggest prizes, what next for one of the world’s most overlooked literary regions? Why isn’t more south Asian fiction published outside the subcontinent?…
Read MoreDavid Ochterlony Dyce Sombre was the first, not Dadabhai Naoroji, says Tony BerrettDavid Ochterlony Dyce Sombre (1808-51) was the first Asian MP, not Dadabhai Naoroji, as Dr Peter Chadha and Zaki Cooper claim (Letters, 25 October). Dyce Sombre was elec…
Read MoreJudges described the Sri Lankan author’s second novel as a ‘rollercoaster journey through life and death’ and praised its audacity and ambitionThe Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has won the Booker prize for fictio…
Read MoreKohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into EnglishThe climate crisis will spiral out of control unless the world applies “emergency brakes” to capitalism and devises a…
Read MoreWe asked 14 writers, editors and publishers to tell us their current favourites from around the worldMy holiday reading begins with The Merciless Ones, the second young adult novel by Namina Forna. It’s the middle volume in a speculative fiction trilog…
Read MoreAs an aspiring writer I loved many exiled authors, from Márquez to Kundera, but with Rushdie the stakes were raisedIt was more than a decade ago when I was introduced to the work of Salman Rushdie, thanks to the recommendation of a writer in my homelan…
Read MorePassionate about literature, adventurous, outgoing, creative and happy to stay shoeless? Kunfunadhoo has the perfect jobWhite sands, blue skies… and lots of books. Applications have opened for what might just be the best job in the world: running a b…
Read MoreAt least three booksellers say they were banned from the annual jamboree as the city embarks on ‘new form of censorship’Hong Kong publishers have decried a “new form of censorship” after vendors selling books deemed politically sensitive were allegedly…
Read MoreKazuki Takahashi found in snorkelling gear floating in the sea off coast of Okinawa, reports sayA Japanese artist who created the hit manga comic series Yu-Gi-Oh!, which spawned a worldwide media franchise including a trading card game, has been found …
Read MoreTranslated by two Kashmiri pandits from an C18th English translation in the 1930s, unique work lay forgotten in a Harvard University libraryThere is an adjective that all too invitingly describes the wildly optimistic endeavours of the American book co…
Read MoreShah Muhammad Rais survived decades of misrule in Afghanistan but finally fled to escape the TalibanHe was made famous by international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, and survived a succession of repressive regimes in Afghanistan. But two decades …
Read MoreWhere does a state’s power truly reside? Not in its military, says the celebrated writer, but in the Kafkaesque files it keeps on its citizens – and no one showed this more brilliantly than SinghI first met Dayanita Singh in India in 2011. Her house wa…
Read MoreStefan Dercon, former UK government adviser, discusses his new book – and his belief that wealthy elites, rather than foreign cash, rescue countries from povertyA former government economist has said that aid is “close to irrelevant” in solving the pro…
Read MoreEducation ministry orders publisher to rectify illustrations of children deemed inappropriateChina’s education ministry has ordered a state-owned publisher to rectify a school textbook that went viral owing to what social media users described as “trag…
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