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Insurgent Empire

Shelley Angelie Saggar reviews Priyamvada Gopal’s impressive new book on the British Empire.

Postcolonial Ecocriticism

Carissa Ma reflects on the continuing significance of the seminal text in postcolonial ecocritcism.

Night of Happiness

Ragini Mohite reviews Tabish Khair’s latest novel, a sensitive acknowledgement of the indignities faced by minority communities and individuals in contemporary India.

Imperial Boredom

Josh Gabert-Doyon reviews a revisionist history of the dash and dare of British imperialism and colonialism.

Colonial Violence

Matthew Kovac reviews a timely re-examination of the violence that underscored Europe’s imperial and colonial ventures.

Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia

Harry Yi-Jui Wu reviews a collection of essays that discuss the often disorienting impact of the introduction of Western biological and medical sciences to East Asia.

Exit West

Ragini Mohite kicks off a series of reviews and essays on Writing Colonialism today with a look back at Moshin Hamid’s recently reprinted novel of magical realism and migration.

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