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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 *
Dazzling...an extraordinarly powerful argument, by a writer of powerful and perhaps even remorseless conviction, for the case that we need first to rethink our past in order to reshape our future. * ArtReview *
An important and illuminating critic of liberalism and globalisation -- Kenan Malik * Observer *
Compelling -- Edward Luce * Financial Times *
The Anglo-American commentariat is full of lofty egos. Pankaj Mishra has developed a reputation as their great deflater ... Mishra's analysis of Anglo-American barbarism is cutting -- Rebecca Liu * White Review *
Every sentence is assembled with meticulous thought ... What the English have often flattered themselves saying they did, Mishra, as an English writer, really does: his duty. His careful discipline shows him to stand clear of the crisis of the Anglo intellectual that he narrates. * Bookforum *
Lacerating ... Mishra artfully pummels liberalism's Grand Narrative. -- Damon Linker * New York Times *
Mishra excels at calling out intellectual vapidities ... [he] invariably knows where the bodies are buried and how to use the incriminating detail to good effect. -- Abhrajyoti Chakraborty * Guardian *