The History a Group of Friends Shares is Never the Same History
Chasing Shadows in Borrowed Light by Safinah Danish Elahi — reviewed The history a group of friends shares is never the same history. Four people may inhabit the same afternoon — the same school canteen, the same humid Karachi classroom with its single whirring fan — and each will file away something different, something weighted…
After the Bullet, the Word
What the literature of recent wars has broken open — and what it still cannot say The Asian Review Editorial May 2026 The old lie, Wilfred Owen warned us, is Latin. Dulce et decorum est. It takes a dead language to ennoble a dead boy. But the lie of the last decade’s war literature is subtler, dressed…
The 2026 Jerzy Giedroyc Prize Goes to Andrei Kurkov, Ukraine’s Most Celebrated Novelist
Andrei Kurkov has never left Kyiv. While the world argued about Ukraine from a safe distance, he stayed — watching, writing, turning the daily reality of war into literature with the patience and precision of someone who understands that bearing witness is itself an act of resistance. On 1 May 2026, at a ceremony in…
Shadows of the Past: A Review of ‘Dabi Aas’
Dabi Aas is a short, punchy, and deeply resonant read. It serves as a sobering reminder that love is a persistent ghost that doesn’t simply vanish because one says “I do” to someone else. For those looking to understand the deeper, often messy meanings of love beyond one’s “prime” years, this novel is an essential…
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