The Chinese-born author on losing her sons to suicide and why she took piano lessons in order to write her new novel, Music Against the Night

I first read Fortress Besieged as a teenager, when the novel, originally published in 1947 and out of print for decades, became a bestseller in China

I first read Fortress Besieged as a teenager, when the novel, originally published in 1947 and out of print for decades, became a bestseller in China

Midlife meditations from Barbara Kingsolver; musical portraits by Jonathan Coe and Yiyun Li; plus memoirs from Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench – all among the coming season’s highlights

The acclaimed author discusses how words like “grief” fail when writing about the loss of her teenage son James

Yiyun Li is the author of twelve books, including the novel The Book of Goose (2022), winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; the story colle...

When I was at nursery school in Beijing in the 1970s, there was a teacher who seemed to find tireless pleasure in...

Durst Distinguished Lectures in the School of Humanities at Purchase College State University of New York

In Beryl Bainbridge’s novels, to die is an awfully big adventure—and so is to live.

In Beryl Bainbridge’s novels, to die is an awfully big adventure—and so is to live.

It’s time to crown some nonfiction. We, the dogged review sleuths at Book Marks, have spent the past 12 months ferreting out raves, pans, and everything in between from more than 150 publications. …

From bestselling and award-winning author and professor Elizabeth McCracken comes an irresistible look at the art of writing. Writing can feel like an endle...

Creative writing professor Yiyun Li has been named the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.

Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature

As the mother of a trans child and the daughter of a man who died by suicide, “Things in Nature Merely Grow” pulled me in like a black hole

The author discusses her story “Any Human Heart.”

And here sat Maureen, who had no one else to send flowers to as sweet revenge. And here sat Lilian, who had thought that little in life could surprise her anymore.

The writer remembers an unlikely but laughter-filled friendship.

In her memoir “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” Yiyun Li tries to honor the lives, and accept the unfathomable deaths, of her two sons.