2025: Highlights of a year in podcasts
2025 was another full year of Asian Review of Books / New Books Network podcasts. Here is a selection of a dozen fiction and non-fiction highlights covering Ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary Korea and everywhere (and every period) in-between. Click on the speaker to hear the podcast … or download (and subscribe!) from your favorite podcast app.
- Peter Hessler, author of “Other Rivers: A Chinese Education”
- Moudhy Al-Rashid, author of “Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History”
- Justin Marozzi, author of “Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World”
- Paul French, author of “Destination Macao”
- Richard Overy, author of “Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan”
- Victor D Cha, author of “The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea”
- Kishore Mahbubani, author of “Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir”
- Fahad Ahmad Bishara, author of “Monsoon Voyagers: An Indian Ocean History”
- Kornel Chang, author of “A Fractured Liberation: Korea under US Occupation”
- Zev J Handel, author of “Chinese Characters across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese”
- Tracy Slater, author of “Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp”
- Sanjena Sathian, author of “Goddess Complex”