While the crisis-stricken literary industry in the West seeks salvation in watered-down autofiction, mass-produced genre fiction, and celebrity gossip repackaged as cultural debate, writers in dictatorships struggle to find ways to portray their political reality in quality novels without displeasing the regime. (Excerpted from a Swedish-language book review Läs Yan Liankes roman – och frukta den … Continue reading Yan Lianke’s “The Day the Sun Died” →