Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary is a fierce chronicle of self-invention
The novelist and activist details how she fashioned herself out of collisions with her mother
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Jung Chang’s critical distance
In her sequel to Wild Swans, the exiled author reflects on China from her adopted British home.
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Putin, Xi and Kim debut their new world order
Autocrats of the world, unite!
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VJ Day: the forgotten war
The defeat of Japan in August 1945 has become a footnote to Allied victory in Europe. But the world we…
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Keir Starmer would be a much happier politician in Japan
Instead, he is lost in Britain.
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North Korea’s guide to going nuclear
How Kim Jong Un fortified his impoverished state.
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Xi Jinping’s daddy issues
The Chinese president’s concept of power was forged by the suffering of his revolutionary father, Xi Zhongxun.
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Fang Fang’s acts of resistance
The Chinese author’s controversial novels are powerful narratives of patriarchal violence.
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