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Yiyun Li on the Master, Colm Tóibín
From Her Speech at The National Arts Club
By
Yiyun Li
| July 17, 2024
"Tolstoy did not neglect to describe the outhouses": Yiyun Li on the Material Concerns of Characters and Writers
The Author of
Wednesday’s Child
on Class, Money, Joy, and Luxury
By
Yiyun Li
| September 6, 2023
“Auld Lang Syne” in July: Yiyun Li on the Solaces and Limits of Music
“Music, in its absolute right to exist, perhaps is not unlike mood, or landscape—external or internal.”
By
Yiyun Li
| May 3, 2022
Yiyun Li on Taking Writing Lessons from
War and Peace
“The line will always be crossed.”
By
Yiyun Li
| September 24, 2021
Yiyun Li on the Brilliance of Bette Howland
"Howland wrote a book that I thought was impossible to write."
By
Yiyun Li
| January 15, 2021
Yiyun Li Remembers Intizar Hussain
Storytelling and the Politics of Everyday Life
By
Yiyun Li
| February 5, 2016
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