Authors of the Month

There a Petal Silently Falls

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)

The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East

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

Chronicles of My Life

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

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow

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)