Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra is the author of From the Ruins of Empire, Age of Anger, and several other books. A 2014 recipient of the Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction, he is a columnist at Bloomberg View 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.

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

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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