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A Reckoning on Race and the Asian ConditionChosen as a Guardian BOOK OF 2020, picked by AnOther as a Book You Should Read This Year, BBC Best Books of 2020...

Echoesis a lyrical collection of personal essays which references art and literature, pop culture and nostalgia. It gathers small joys, from a figure-hugging 'disco dress' to learning to sing Koo...

In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other AstonishmentsA sparkling collection of essays about the natural world, illustrated throughout — a magnificent bestiary, and an unforgettable book of sustenance, resilience...

A lyrical, poetic essay collection that blends memoir with powerful writing on the natural world, taking us from London to New Zealand, Shanghai to Malaysia — from the winner of...

With Jason Y. Ng, introduction by Ai WeiweiThe must read book for anyone who cares about Hong Kong and democracy. At what point do you stand up to power?When he...

A revelatory treatise from the Women’s Prize-winning, Booker-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being about how her face has shaped and been shaped by her life.What did your...

In 20 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental worksOver the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living...

The number of women in media professions may have increased in recent years, but there is still a gender imbalance and lack of diversity in newsrooms, film sets, and so...

Caste as Lived ExperienceCaste, as it is experienced in everyday life, is the pièce de résistance of this book. Thirty-two voices narrate how from childhood to adulthood, caste intruded upon...

Essays 2003-2020A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP ACROSS THIS LINESalman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of...

With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time'Azadi!' — Urdu for 'freedom' — is the...

A diary of my sexual awakening...at thirty-three?!!Asuka is neither a woman nor a man — they're X-gender (a non-binary identity)-and they've realized they like women! Okay, now what? Adult films...

The T-Shirts I LoveThe international literary icon opens his eclectic closet — here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of...

Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-PopThere is a vast cultural movement emerging from beyond the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet...

A solo female traveller navigates the world and discovers that freedom is possible.How to Ride a Train to Ulaanbaatar and Other Essays is a coming-of-age story of a woman who...

An Improvisation on Indian MusicBy turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Finding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, North Indian music:...

One of the most acclaimed essayists writing today on the political hysteria plaguing the WestDecades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria ranging from imperial atavism...

The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first timeWang Xiaobo made his name as a novelist...

FROM REPORTING TO REFLECTING, FIELD NOTES FOR THE SOUL In this collection of poignant and uplifting essays, seasoned international journalist Marga Ortigas shares what she's learned from over two decades...

The essential writings of China’s first iconic modern intellectual, intent on reforming an entire nation, now published for the first time in Penguin Classics The power, anger, and fluency of...

Translated by Nathan CollinsThe ferociously talented Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding, shares his perspective on the stories and movies that influence his work!Ever since he...

Essays and CriticismISBN: 9780975609231 | Published: 2010 | Paperback | 278 pages

History, Without BordersSanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of...

A unique look into the mind of a master storyteller.In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a...

Newly revised for the seventy-fifth anniversary of partition, Kavita Puri conducts a vital reappraisal of empire, revisiting the stories of those collected in the 2017 edition and reflecting on recent...

Reflections on Society and the PandemicThese are the thoughts flitted, fluttered, and formed as Teresita Cruz Del Rosario battled COVID-19 and experienced life as never before — one of danger...

Conversations on Desire, Power, Love and GrowthFrom a leading psychotherapist comes an electrifying examination into female desire told through the stories of seven very different women.After thirty years of research,...

Translated by John ToledoA collection of personal essays about growing up and becoming a father from the landscapes of the Philippine countrysides to the fringes and streetways of ManilaQuinabuangan and...

A beautiful blend of memoir and oceanography that explores the ocean's depths and many of the big questions — about identity, the nature of work, the pull of family —...