Yiyun Li

Oct 15, 2024 | harpers.org | Yiyun Li

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I led a virtual discussion of War and Peace, with the thought that someone else might enjoy reading the novel with me. Three thousand people ended up following along, which seemed to me a good way to connect people in isolation. But there were disagreements.

Aug 24, 2024 | newyorker.com | Yiyun Li

The guest from America was to arrive in the late afternoon. Ursula, having arranged the welcome platter, waited until she heard a car slowing down in the driveway, its gravel rinsed all day by the rain, before drizzling some honey in broad strokes on the cheese and the nuts. From the kitchen window, she could see the cabdriver—Timothy today—place a suitcase next to the door, heavy, as demonstrated by his eloquent grimace.

Jul 16, 2024 | lithub.com | Yiyun Li

Yiyun Li In 2006, Colm was visiting a graduate class taught by a friend on the west coast where I was a young assistant professor, so I slipped into the class, pretending to be a student. During the hour-long class, I was stricken by this man—up until then I had never seen a face so brilliantly vivid, so wise, so patient (it wasn’t the most inspiring group of students), so sharp, and yet so amusing and amused. I swear I did the most impudent thing. I stared at him the entire time.

Jun 6, 2024 | l8r.it | Hugo Rifkind |Maya Binyam |Jacqueline Crooks |Yiyun Li

LoveReading Says About Press Reviews Author LoveReading Says Incredibly compulsive, Hugo Rifkind’s Rabbits is a menacingly funny story of dark secrets, coming-of-age faltering, and the dirty seduction of being sucked into elite circles, in this case a middle-class boy sliding into Scottish aristocracy. Also shot-through with the mystery of a death and its protagonist’s personal loss and dislocation, Rabbits is a droll, bold, disturbing dynamo of a book.

Jun 4, 2024 | thedial.world | Yiyun Li

charactersA small cluster of movable type, all of them punctuation marks, including:Comma, Period, Colon, Semicolon, Question Mark, Exclamation Mark, Ellipsis, Hyphen, En Dash, Em Dash, Parenthesis (a pair, P1 and P2), Quotation Marks (two pairs: Q1 and Q2 are double quotation marks; Q3 and Q4 are single quotation marks), Apostrophe, and a few others. They all have the same square, antique, and smudged appearance.