Gaiutra Bahadur unearths buried stories of indenture—those of women who battled rigid patriarchy on either side of the black water:...
Day: April 4, 2014
Mai Jia (the pen name of Jiang Benhu) is one of China’s most popular authors, but he is still practically...
Focusing on the everyday people living in the margin of the metropolis, writer Wang Anyi pays tribute to the country...
Internationally acclaimed foreign writers have met with Chinese writers and readers this month in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and...
The espionage novel Decoded has become the first contemporary Chinese fiction ever published by Penguin Classics, marking its entry into...
Sydney bookseller Barbara Horgan wants to make it clear she is not quitting the book industry. She is simply migrating,...
There could hardly be a more carefully balanced longlist than the 11 Australian novels chosen for the Miles Franklin Literary...
Review of INTO THE HEART OF THE HIMALAYAS by Jono Lineen. Melbourne University Giving away the end of a book is...
When Jemma Birrell invited Vince Gilligan to the Sydney Writers' Festival last year, he was too busy working on the...
Mai Jia, sometimes called the "Dan Brown" of Chinese literature, is a hit with readers in China. Now his debut...
