Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra is the author of From the Ruins of Empire and several other books. He is a columnist at Bloomberg View and the New York Times Book Review, and writes regularly for the Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.

Beer in the Snooker Club: The Introduction

This is the introduction, written by Pankaj Mishra, to Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali, in a new edition out this week. “HISTORY,” Stephen Dedalus says in Ulysses, “is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” ...

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A Storm of Change: The Journalism of China’s Growth

THE FOLLOWING IS TAKEN from Pankaj Mishra’s introduction to Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land, edited by Angilee Shah and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom; Wasserstrom is Los Angeles Review of Books Asia editor. The book contains essays ...

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