Pankaj Mishra is an essayist and novelist. His books include Age of Anger: A History of the Present , From the Ruins of Empire : The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia , and the novels The Romantics and Run and Hide . He writes literary and political essays for Guardian , New Yorker and London Review of Books , among other American, British and Indian publications. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Mishra has received, among other prizes, Yale University's Windham-Campbell Literature Prize and Germany's prestigious Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding. His new book is The World After Gaza .