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Women in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day: Personal and Political Autonomy

By: Rebekah Richards

Kappa, by Akutagawa Ryunosuke - Book Review: The Intriguing Satirical Short Story of A Japanese Folktale Creature

By: Naoko Charity

Book Review – Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne: Sri Lankan-born Novelist’s Thought-Provoking Family Saga

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami – Book Review: Sex and Violence in Tokyo's Kabukicho

By: Jeremy Suizo

Review: Some Prefer Nettles – Junichiro Tanizaki: Tanizaki’s Novella Explores a Divorce in a Changing Japan

By: Brian Jungwiwattanaporn

Book Review: A Drop of Glass and Other Stories: Progressive Thai Literature by Sidaoru’ang

By: Brian Jungwiwattanaporn

Book Review – Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup: Novel by the Author of the Book That Inspired Slumdog Millionaire

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Murakami Haruki's Kafka on the Shore: A Review of One of Murakami's Best

By: Sacha Idell

Japanese Magical Realism: A Brief Exploration of Fantastical Subversion in Japan's Literature

By: Sacha Idell

Lucky Everyday: A Novel

By: Dianha Simpson

Religion in Manil Suri's The Death of Vishnu: A Reflection of Indian Culture

By: Derek Siegel

Review of The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe: Themes and Motifs of a Classic Japanese Novel

By: Michelle Bailat-Jones

Book Review – Q & A by Vikas Swarup: Bollywood Masala in Print

By: Angelina Nachimuthu

Review of The Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee: A Vivid, Vulgar, Funny Picture of a Modern-Day Indian Family

By: Susan Cunningham

Review – The Marriage Bureau for Rich People: A Fun Debut Novel Indian Marriage Customs and Matchmaking

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Book Review – Indian Summer by Pratima Mitchell: Youth Fiction About Mother-Daughter Relationships and Family Secrets

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Wakako Yamauchi - Songs My Mother Taught Me: For Yamauchi, The Desert Acts as a Place of Refuge and Repose

By: John Hansen

Yukio Mishima's Temple of the Golden Pavilion: Postwar Japan and Masculinity in Mishima’s Work

By: Sara Dustin

The Bhagavad Gita: A Reflection of Ancient Indian Civilization

By: Gwendolyn Cuizon

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Reviewed: Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Literature

By: Feature Writer Colin Harvey

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Book Review: Haruki Murakami's Eighth Novel is Possibly His Best

By: Todd Christopher Petty

Book Review - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga: 2008 Man Booker Prize Winning Fiction

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

After Dark: Book Review: Haruki Murakami Explores the Unknown in 2004 Bestseller

By: Todd Christopher Petty

Book Review: The 3 Mistakes of My Life: Chetan Bhagat’s Latest Novel about Business, Cricket and Religion

By: Feature Writer Simone Preuss

Review: Heartland by Daren Shiau: A Singaporean Novel

By: Jing Heng Fong

Book Review: One Night at the Call Center: Chetan Bhagat's Novel about Six Call-Center Employees in India

By: Feature Writer Simone Preuss

Book Review: Empress Orchid by Anchee Min: Fictional Biography of the Last Empress of China

By: Amber Lindley

Review: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: Fiction Novel by Lisa See Provides Historical Insight on China

By: Katherine Kocisky

Role of Women in Little Hut of Leaping Fishes: Female Characters in Chiew-Siah Tei’s Novel set in Imperial China

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Book Review: Little Hut of Leaping Fishes: A Tale of Family Loyalty and Personal Integrity by Chiew-Siah Tei

By: Feature Writer Susan Whelan

Taichi Yamada Sixth Novel Translation: I Haven’t Dreamed of Flying for a While Faber & Faber 2008

By: Susan Morris

Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India: The Traumatic Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947

By: Linsay Philippe-Auguste

Michio Takeyama's Harp of Burma: Religion in the Post-World War II Japanese Novel

By: Simon August Thalmann

The Namesake: A Critically-Acclaimed Novel By Jhumpa Lahiri

By: Linsay Philippe-Auguste

The Diving Pool, by Yoko Ogawa: Three Novellas Translated by Stephen Snyder

By: Mary Hiers

The Empire and the Poets: Rudyard Kipling's India and Rabindranath Tagore

By: Robert O'Connor

Chinese Poetry: Wild Grass: Lu Hsun's Collection of 20 Prose Poems Written in the 1920s

By: George Conrad Gould

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami: Mental Illness, the Beatles, and Sexual Discovery in 1960's Tokyo

By: Elizabeth Nelson

Uno Chiyo: Japanese Author of Confessions of Love

By: Feature Writer Meg Nola

Anna and the King of Siam: Leonowens' account, Margaret Landon's book, and movie adaptations

By: Maria Jaijet D. Jasmin

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