... literature fiction culture censorship dissidents In 2012, the Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature. It was a memorable occasion for many reasons, but I remember it mostly for what it taught me about public perception of Chinese literature in the English-speaking world. Western...

...Joshua Lustig A new novel about the 2015 surge of migration to Europe raises questions about whether fiction that draws on ethnographic methods can bring a uniquely intimate perspective to the relations between asylum seekers and the volunteers who try to help them. Although one of Alameddine’s...