Extreme Reading
ChrestomatherTabish Khair, picture by Christopher Thomsen Rarely has a novel seemed as timely as Tabish Khair’s Jihadi Jane. As the title implies, this is the story of a radicalized young…
A window into the new China: Lijia Zhang’s ‘Lotus’
I first met Lijia Zhang in 2010, at a literary event in Beijing. She had then recently published a memoir (Socialism…