Writings

A chronological selection of essays, review-essays, and criticism, drawn from The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other periodicals. Where a piece is unavailable behind a paywall, a periodical archive is listed below.

Recent Essays & Reviews

• June 2026
  Geopolitical Narcissism

  Harper’s
• Jul 7, 2015
  Do Moralists Make Bad Novelists?

  The New York Times
• Jun 24, 2015
  The Western Model is Broken

  The Guardian
• May 23, 2015
  The Places in Between

  The New Yorker
• Apr 10, 2015
  After the Paris Attacks

  The Guardian
• Feb 28, 2015
  The Waiting Room of History

  The Guardian
• May 23, 2014
  Narendra Modi and the New Face of India

  The Guardian
• Nov 18, 2013
  The Origins of the Second World War in Asia

  The New Yorker
• Nov 18, 2013
  Which India Matters?

  The New York Review of Books
• Oct 23, 2013
  A Review of Perry Anderson's The Indian Ideology

  Foreign Affairs
• Oct 3, 2013
  Unholy Alliances: Nixon, Kissinger and Bangladesh

  The New Yorker

An archive of older writings, maintained at Columbia University, collects earlier essays and reviews.

Periodical Archives

Each of the periodicals below maintains a complete archive of Mishra's contributions. Follow the links for full texts and further reading.