Book Reviews International Episodes
Jan. 29, 2024
The Subplot: What China is reading and why it matters. Talking with author and critic Megan Walsh
Modern Chinese fiction reflects what average Chinese people are thinking and their aspirations as well as fears.
Jan. 25, 2024
Looking at Mexico, Mexico looks back. Talking with writer and photographer Janet Sternburg.
Photographer and writer Janet Sternburg lives in San Miguel de Allende where she has captured images/essences of people, places and objects in her latest book.
Jan. 2, 2024
Cancelling a prominent author in China: Acclaimed novelist and screenplay writer Geling Yan fights back.
Noted author fights back by setting up her
Publishing company after being banned in China for questioning Covid 19 policy.
Nov. 27, 2023
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their battle for the future. Talking with Pulitzer Prize winning author Ian Johnson.
In the face of whitewashing history by the CCP, independent writers, artists and filmmakers in China are using digital technology to publish honest, non biased accounts of Chinese history.
Sept. 13, 2023
Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State. Talking with author, Professor Danny Dorling, Oxford University
40 years of neoliberal social policy reforms has made the UK more unequal and key indicators like life expectancy, infant mortality, pay distribution among others are bearing out how the social progress of the 1950s and 1960…