Asia

Imperial Methods

Peter Matthiessen’s Orientalism.

  • Joel Whitney

The Cost of Our Drone War in Pakistan

An interview with Ambassador Akbar Ahmed.

  • Wajahat Ali

Purifying Kashmir

Saudi Arabia exports Salafism to the war-torn region

  • Tariq Mir

Friends and Dictators

Cozying up to central Asia’s most brutal regimes.

  • Tara McKelvey

Poetry Fights Back

Modern Pashtun poetry is a poetry of resistance.

  • Shaheen Buneri

Feast and Famine

India is growing, but Indians are still starving.

  • Siddhartha Deb

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Al Qaeda and the Pakistan Floods

Natural disaster is paving the way for the manmade variety.

  • Syed Saleem Shahzad

Land of My Dreams

Islamic liberalism under fire in India.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

State of Emergency

A personal history of Pakistan on the brink.

  • Moni Mohsin

Bad News

Authenticity and the South Asian political novel.

  • Amitava Kumar

Revolution

The Islamist challenge to secular Bangladesh.

  • Nicholas Schmidle

Delivering Health Care

A case study on Cambodia

  • Michael Kremer
  • David Clingingsmith

Inside Madrasa

A personal history.

  • Ebrahim Moosa

Truth, Lies, and Accountability

In search of justice in East Timor.

  • Joseph Nevins

A Forbidden Hope

Reviewing Deepa Mehta’s Water.

  • Alan A. Stone

Manifesto

An argument for democracy in Taiwan

  • The Editors of Taiwan
  • Theodore Huters

See No Evil

On Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou.

  • Alan A. Stone

Body of the Nation

Why women were mutliated in Gujarat.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

Reading China

What American conventional wisdom gets wrong.

  • Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Remnants of War

The deadly legacy of America's air war in Laos

  • Kieko Matteson
  • Robert Perkinson

The Cult of Authenticity

India’s cultural commissars worship “Indianness” instead of art.

  • Vikram Chandra

Imagining the Nation

On poetry from Vietnam.

  • Nguyen Ba Chung

The Best-Selling of Vietnam

The distortions of Stanley Karnow’s Vietnam: A History.

  • Noam Chomsky

Inside the Death Factory

On women vets of Vietnam.

  • Christine L. Kane
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