Translation: Lu Xun's Voice, I

The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner author Jennifer Quist's post-graduate work at the University of Alberta includes translations from the Chinese. These include two pieces by Lu Xun. The second appears here. 

Tim Parks's Italy Part II, by Linda Leith

Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo, by Tim Parks (Norton 2014)

Part I is here. 

Q&A with Bharati Mukherjee

LL: You have been writing about the culture shock experienced by immigrants from India in the United States for 40 years or more. Do you see yourself as being a pioneer in this exploration of the immigrant experience?M

BM: My short and emphatic answer: Yes.

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.