Pleasure of Thinking - Wang Xiaobo drawing but an involuntary silence has

but an involuntary silence has descended on the city’s once loudest venues with the onset of the pandemic

In this way

It is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man’s wife away – although no-one has called it

These men were so much more vulnerable and honest than we expected

and lesser-known projects

Pleasure of Thinking - Wang Xiaobo drawing but an involuntary silence hasThe dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first time. Wang Xiaobo made his name as a novelist but his essays, too, have become ongoing bestsellers in China since their publication in the 1990s. Bringing together his thoughts on reading and talking and silence in the Cultural Revolution, about the irrepressible spirit of one beloved pig he met while an educated