Authors of the Month

The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East
Olivier Roy

• Read the chapter, "The War on Terrorism: Between World War IV and Optical Illusion." (pdf)
  
• Read Dexter Filkins's review in the New York Times Book Review
• Watch an interview with Olivier Roy discussing his previous work Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah.
• More books by Olivier Roy.

Olivier Roy speaking at the World Affairs Council:



"Roy is able to write a trenchant account showing how the Middle East has quite transformed the political categories of Left and Right, particularly in the United States. This has allowed him to write what is perhaps the first combined history of political thought in the West and the Middle East." — Faisal Devji, New School University

Cloth, $24.95 160 pages , March 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-70032-0

Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan
Donald Keene

• Read an excerpt from Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan (pdf)
• More Donald Keene books
• Read about the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture

Cloth, $27.95 / £16.95 208 pages , May 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14440-7

There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun
Ch'oe Yun; Translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton

• Read an interview with Ch'oe Yun.

"Haunting, painful and affirming, full of illusions and hallucinations while rooted in the graphically physical. . . . Everything about Yun's work is brilliant." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Cloth, $24.50 / £14.50 200 pages , May 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14296-0

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
Wang Anyi; Translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan

• Read an excerpt from The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (pdf)
• Read Francine Prose's review from the New York Times Book Review.
• Selected as one of the titles for Reading the World 2008
• More on Wang Anyi

 "A beautifully constructed cyclical narrative... the manner in which character types and events recur against the city’s shifting backdrop is impossible to forget." — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

Cloth, $29.95 / £17.50 456 pages , March 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14342-4