The 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. The 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: Soul dancing: the Japanese art of Jiuta-mai; Postcards from Frankfurt Book Fair; Gao Xingjian on exile and 'cold literature'; Fiction by: Anis Shivani, Henning Mankell, Thomas Lee, Haresh Shah and Edwina Shaw; Poetry by: Alexandru Cetateanu, Niki Marangou, Mariko Nagai, Dalit Nagra; Writer Sam Chambers and photographer Andre Eichman follow the old Silk Road to Kashgar, where they capture the ending of a way of life; Reading India: Mridula Koshy tells Peter Mares about Kerala's literary mission.