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Biographical note
Pankaj Mishra is the author of numerous books, most recently The Age of Anger: A History of the Present (2017). He writes literary and political essays for the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Guardian, New Yorker, London Review of Books, and Bloomberg View, among other American, British, and Indian publications. His work has also appeared in Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Time, The Independent, Granta, The Nation, n+1, Poetry, Common Knowledge, Outlook, and Harper's.literary iconoclast [and] maverick political thinker-edgy, sly and idiosyncratic-weaving a kind of witchcraft with the wounded frankness of prose
- (praise for Pankaj Mishra), Financial Express
Bracing ... The first essential read of the Trump Era
- (Praise for Age of Anger), Vogue
This important, erudite book proves the deepest roots of our inflamed moment
- (in praise of Age of Anger), New York Times
An original attempt to explain today's paranoid hatreds ... Insightful ... Iconoclastic ... Mishra shocks on many levels
- (Praise for Age of Anger), The Economist
A searing attack on the assumption that modernity is synonymous with progress
- (Praise for Age of Anger), Wall Street Journal
Urgently vigorous ... It is Age of Anger's singular ambition to give the world as we have it a past, a how-we-got-here, a where-the-mistakes-lie ... The book marks an important advance in our most urgent discourse
- (Praise for Age of Anger), The National
A bowel-churning kick in the guts ... [Pankaj Mishra's] vision is unusually broad, accommodating and resistant to categorisation. It is the kind of vision the world needs right now
- (Praise for Age of Anger), Financial Times
The ideal writer to diagnose our current moment
Los Angeles Review of Books
Bracing and illuminating ... Mishra writes with ... style, energy and incision ... [He] dwells in the realm of ideas and emotions, which get short shrift in most accounts of global politics ... A decent liberalism would read sharp critics like Mishra and learn.
New York Times Book Review