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asia

David Simpson: Wandering Spooks · 14 August 2008

Tariq Ali: Next Door to War · 17 July 2008

  • Descent into Chaos: How the War against Islamic Extremism Is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid  Buy this book
  • Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars within by Shuja Nawaz  Buy this book

Tariq Ali: Daughter of the West · 13 December 2007

Tariq Ali: Pakistan at Sixty · 4 October 2007

Thant Myint-U: What to do about Burma · 8 February 2007

Pankaj Mishra: Getting Rich · 30 November 2006

Bruce Cumings: We look at it and see ourselves · 15 December 2005

  • Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley Martin
  • Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea by Jasper Becker  Buy this book

Eliot Weinberger: Diary · 22 September 2005

Pankaj Mishra: The ‘People’s War’ · 23 June 2005

Tariq Ali: Enemies of Hindutva · 8 July 2004

  • Nehru: A Political Life by Judith Brown
  • Nehru by Benjamin Zachariah

John Gittings: Spreading Tinder over Dry Scrub · 8 July 2004

  • One China, Many Paths edited by Wang Chaohua

Chalmers Johnson: The Looting of Asia · 20 November 2003

  • Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold by Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave

Tariq Ali: Diary · 19 June 2003

Michael Gilsenan: Out of the Hadhramaut · 20 March 2003

Andrew O’Hagan: Diary · 20 February 2003

Chalmers Johnson: Who’s in charge? · 6 February 2003

  • Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg

Anatol Lieven: Preserver and Destroyer · 23 January 2003

  • Pakistan: Eye of the Storm by Owen Bennett Jones

Christopher de Bellaigue: The Martyrdom of Hossein Kharrazi · 2 January 2003

Rory Stewart: Diary · 11 July 2002

Jason Burke: From Bagram · 23 May 2002

Anatol Lieven: In Kabul · 4 April 2002

Murray Sayle: Why the bastards wouldn’t stand and fight · 21 February 2002

  • China and the Vietnam Wars 1950-75 by Qiang Zhai
  • None so Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam by George Allen
  • No Peace, No Honour: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam by Larry Berman

James Meek: Where does the rubble end and the ground begin? · 3 January 2002

R.T. Murphy: Looking to Game Boy · 3 January 2002

  • The Making of Modern Japan by Marius Jansen

Jon Cannon: Diary · 13 December 2001

Anatol Lieven: In Pakistan · 15 November 2001

Rory Stewart: Diary · 6 September 2001

Christopher de Bellaigue: Diary · 5 July 2001

Jasper Becker: ‘Comrade Jiang Zemin does indeed seem a proper choice’ · 24 May 2001

  • The Tiananmen Papers by Zhang Liang, edited by Andrew Nathan and Perry Link

Brian Young: A Cheat, a Sharper and a Swindler · 24 May 2001

Tariq Ali: Bitter Chill of Winter · 19 April 2001

Murray Sayle: Japan goes Dutch · 5 April 2001

Jon Cannon: In North Korea · 10 August 2000

Rory Stewart: Diary · 20 July 2000

Gerald Hammond: Diary · 3 September 1998

Benedict Anderson: Soaking in Luang Prabang · 18 June 1998

astronomy

Thomas Jones: Short Cuts · 18 August 2005

Francis Spufford: Operation Backfire · 28 October 1999

Tim Radford: Cosmic! · 5 March 1998

  • Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon by James Harford
  • Countdown: A History of Space Flight by T.A. Heppenheimer
  • Something New under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age by Helen Gavaghan
  • Space and the American Imagination by Howard McCurdy

John Leslie: Fine-Tuned for Life · 1 January 1998

  • Before the Beginning by Martin Rees
  • The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin

australasia

Chloe Hooper: Kindred Spirits · 18 August 2005

Tom Nairn: Diary · 18 November 2004

Greg Dening: Standing on the Wharf, Weeping · 25 September 2003

  • The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia by John Gascoigne
  • Looking for Blackfella’s Point: An Australian History of Place by Mark McKenna
  • Words for Country: Landscape and Language in Australia by Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths
  • The Land Is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia edited by Luise Hercus, Flavia Hodges and Jane Simpson

aviation

Peter Campbell: At the Science Museum · 3 February 2005

Richard Adams: Flying Costs · 2 September 2004

Robert Macfarlane: Seven Miles per Hour · 5 February 2004

  • First to Fly: The Unlikely Triumph of Wilbur and Orville Wright by James Tobin
  • The Wright Brothers: The Aviation Pioneers who Changed the World by Ian Mackersey
  • Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight by Paul Hoffman
  • Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity to the First World War by Richard Hallion

Francis Spufford: Love that Bird · 6 June 2002

E.S. Turner: Gas-Bags · 15 November 2001

  • Dr Eckener’s Dream Machine: The Historic Saga of the Round-the-World Zeppelin by Douglas Botting

Ian Hamilton: Diary · 29 April 1999

bibliography

Leah Price: ‘Trčs vrai!’ · 18 October 2001

  • Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H.J. Jackson

Joanna Kavenna: The Inner Lives of Quiet Women · 21 September 2000

  • May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian by Suzanne Raitt

Jason Harding: Dipper · 21 September 2000

  • George Moore, 1852-1933 by Adrian Frazier

biogenetics

Slavoj Žižek: Bring me my Philips Mental Jacket · 22 May 2003

Thomas Jones: Short Cuts · 19 September 2002

biography

Dan Jacobson: Probably, Perhaps · 14 August 2008

  • The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe by Timothy Snyder  Buy this book

Stefan Collini: Upwards and Onwards · 31 July 2008

Roxanne Varzi: Miniskirt Democracy · 31 July 2008

  • Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit by Gillian Whitlock  Buy this book

Helen Deutsch: My Faults, My Follies · 17 July 2008

  • Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington by Norma Clarke  Buy this book

Ruth Bernard Yeazell: Howl, Howl, Howl! · 22 May 2008

Michael Dobson: Father-Daughter Problems · 8 May 2008

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