Excerpt: I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through

The skin rejoices. An excerpt from Jack Hannan's second novel, I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through. 

From Yan Liang: Ai Weiwei's Disappearance

After 60 years of absolute power, the Chinese Communist Party is more fragile than the world thinks – and has trouble dealing with any criticism or challenge, especially from its own people.

Carlos Fuentes: In The Best Company, by Ingrid Bejerman

Ingrid Bejerman, former director of the renowned Julio Cortázar Latin American Chair, writes about her relationship with the recently deceased Mexican writer and some of the stories his friends remember him by.

Photo: Dulce Ma. Zuniga  

A Funeral in the Time of Covid

Funerals in Covid times take on a special character. Norman Ravvin writes about what a Jewish funeral is like now, a theme he considers on Polish ground in his recent novel, The Girl Who Stole Everything.