Into what system are migrants welcomed? What are the prescriptions of the request?...

Grappling with Hong Kong’s present and future via a bumper crop of fiction and poetry....

Oliver Farry hears out “Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language” by James Griffiths....

This story makes landfall, is beached, on April 4, 2021, but, really, the story begins earlier still: with the Atlantic Slave Trade and its long afterlives....

What creates conditions for a dictatorship? The daily indignities that force people to turn to a messiah-despot....

Nafeesa Syeed interviews Farah Bashir about her book about growing up female in the 1990s during the war in Kashmir, “Rumours of Spring.”...

Jessica Namakkal interrogates the settler colonial impulses behind 20th-century utopias like Auroville, India....

A journey of self-discovery into the complexities and sufferings of a divided nation....

Jason Christian finds “The Kindness of Strangers,” the new travelogue from Tom Lutz....

Anthony Morreale reconsiders the literature of South Vietnam....

Aidan Forth reviews two new books by Darren Byler, “In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony” and “Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City.”...

The formidable Ludmilla Petrushevskaya enchants with her toughness of spirit in this March 2021 interview....

Lev Nachman on two books about China in the 1980s: Isabella Weber’s “How China Escaped Shock Therapy” and Jeremy Brown’s “June Fourth.”...

Nathan Scott McNamara interviews editor Valerie Miles about Granta’s list of Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists....

A prominent scholar and dissident speaks out about Myanmar’s military rule....

Claire Kohda delves into “In Ghostly Japan: Japanese Legends of Ghosts, Yokai, Yurei and Other Oddities” by Lafcadio Hearn....

Sonia Faleiro reviews the new book by Laura T. Murphy, “Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt.”...