Dali L Yang’s critique of China’s response in the early days of the Covid pandemic is thoroughgoing if academic, while poet Liao Yiwu’s account mixes fact and fiction to extraordinary effect
Can a visit to the Bristol CrimeFest – this year featuring GT Karber, creator of the whodunnit series Murdle – help pin down why the crime genre is booming?
A thoughtful meditation on love and loneliness via an AI-based sex doll; an outstanding debut memoir of infidelity’s aftermath; and a passionate and insightful botanical study
The US-based writer and translator on his new novel set in 1930s Vienna, his deep connection with the authors he has worked with and why he always returns to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
The Chinese American author of The Book of Goose pays tribute to the late writer, reflecting on the rich rewards of revisiting her stories over many years
Blue Sisters, the novelist’s follow-up to her debut Cleopatra and Frankenstein, focuses on death and addiction. She explains how she found her way to a more optimistic story