From Pankaj Mishra, author the successful Temptations of the West and Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, comes a provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image. It is shortlisted for the Orwell prize 2013. The Victorian period, viewed in the West as a[...]

A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice In "Temptations of the West, " Pankaj Mishra brings literary authority and political insight to bear on journeys through South Asia, and considers the pressures of Western-style modernity and prosperity on the region. Beginning in India, his examination[...]

An outstanding collection of writing, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, explores the people, landscape, customs, religion, and other aspects of India, in an anthology that features contributions by Allen Ginsberg, Ved Mehta, V. S. Naipaul, Mark Twain, Paul Theroux, Peter Matthiessen, Rudyar[...]

An artist paints landscapes of faraway places that she cannot identify in order to find her place in the global economy. A migrant worker sorts recyclables and thinks deeply about the soul of his country, while a Taoist mystic struggles to keep his traditions alive. An entrepreneur capitalizes on a [...]

Winner of the Booker Prize.
India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's "The Siege of Krishnapur," widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last f[...]

Filled with lyrical, exotic prose and nostalgia for Rudyard Kipling's native India, "Kim is widely acknowledged as the author's greatest novel and a key element in his winning the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the tale of an orphaned sahib and the burdensome fate that awaits him when he is u[...]