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Yiyun Li on the Master, Colm Tóibín

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

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By Yiyun Li | September 6, 2023

“Auld Lang Syne” in July: Yiyun Li on the Solaces and Limits of Music

“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

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War and Peace">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

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

Yiyun Li Remembers Intizar Hussain

Storytelling and the Politics of Everyday Life

By Yiyun Li | February 5, 2016

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