Pankaj Mishra on the Violent Transition to Modernity
At the center of gravity shifts east, Pankaj Mishra argues that the West’s own fateful experience of modernity is playing out globally
Reading Burma
On four new books that complicate the international image of Burma’s emergence from a half-century of military rule.
REVIEW: ‘Aid Dependence in Cambodia’, by Sophal Ear
PHNOM PENH – On November 22, 2011, at Cambodia’s United Nations-backed war crimes court, one of the former leaders of the Khmer Rouge rose to address the chamber.
REVIEW: ‘The Orphan Master’s Son’, by Adam Johnson
PERHAPS THE BEST way to grasp the sad and desperate state of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is to glance at a satellite photo of Northeast Asia by night.
