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Category Archives: Interviews

The Explosion Chronicles: Interview with 2016 Man Booker International Prize nominee Yan Lianke

By Sihan Tan How does one argue for the burning of books? Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor of China and mastermind behind her Great Wall, incinerated three thousand years of literature precisely because of his love for the past, or so Borges romanticises. Not

A conversation with David Henry Hwang

The Golden Playwright – a conversation with David Henry Hwang by Carla Stockton David Henry Hwang (Columbia Univerity School of the Arts Website) I am on the phone with David Henry Hwang, the Concentration Head of the Playwriting program in the Drama Division of