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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 - Financial Express Bracing ... The first essential read of the Trump Era - Vogue This important, erudite book proves the deepest roots of our inflamed moment - New York Times An original attempt to explain today's paranoid hatreds ... Insightful ... Iconoclastic ... Mishra shocks on many levels - The Economist A searing attack on the assumption that modernity is synonymous with progress - 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 - 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 - 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 - Observer Compelling - 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 - 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

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Pankaj Mishra is the author of numerous books, most recently The Age of Anger. He writes literary and political essays for the New York Times, Guardian, New Yorker, London Review of Books, and many others.

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