Sarah Howe’s new collection, Foretokens, will be published next month.
Truth becomes fiction when the fiction’s true;Real becomes not-real when the unreal’s real. Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin
What I know beginsoutside/withinthe limits of Shanghai.A girl is born, youngest of many.One day –if it helps say the bowls are empty –the girl issold to strangers.If...
Robert Edric specialises in historical backwaters. His novels, 19 to date, unfold in isolated fishing villages, colonial outposts or Alpine spa towns. What these places have in common is that they seem removed from larger political conflicts, though they replay them in claustrophobic miniature. Edric’s imagination has always been drawn to the peripheral, to characters who are set apart,...
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