Asia Literary Review is the first magazine of its kind in the Asian literary world. An exciting new English language quarterly devoted to reportage, documentary photography, travel writing, fiction and memoir, it is set to become essential reading around the world for anyone with a serious interest in Asia and the best writing from and about the region. Asia Literary Review follows the tradition of successful literary journals published in Europe and the USA by providing a view of the world that combines new fiction with eye-witness accounts and polemic. Addressing the needs of intelligent readers, every quarterly issue extends to at least 200 pages and contains the work of celebrated and established writers as well as new voices from Shanghai to Mumbai. In this edition: A hard life: Pico Iyer tells Ramona Koval of the Dalai Lama's complicated existence; Kumbh Mela: The greatest show on Earth; Kanif Kureishi on racism and writing; Dissident at the border: Liao Yiwu goes south; Fiction by: Tanaz Bhathena, Tew Bunnag, Mitsuyo Kakuta, Wendy Law-Yone, Nguyen Qui Duc, David Yost; Poetry by: Tishani Doshi, Kabir, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Kevin Simmonds, Paul StJohn Mackintosh, Kirby Wright.