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Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra is the author of Age of Anger: A History of the Present, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, and several other books of nonfiction and fiction. Mishra won the 2024 Weston International Award, as well as the 2014 Windham–Campbell Prize for nonfiction. He writes regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The London Review of Books, among others.


How the Horrors of the 20th Century Shaped the Ongoing Moral Catastrophe in Gaza

Pankaj Mishra on Nationalism, Modernity and How We Can Best Confront Contemporary Atrocity
February 11, 2025  By Pankaj Mishra
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Pankaj Mishra on the Eternal Present of Amit Chaudhuri’s The Immortals

"The novel instead seems to be seeking the unknown, a strange experience of fascination beyond language and representation."
July 31, 2023  By Pankaj Mishra
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Pankaj Mishra on an Oft-Misunderstood Russian Revolutionary Socialist

Examining the Intellectual Life of Alexander Herzen
November 2, 2020  By Pankaj Mishra
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