Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Yiyun Li

‘Radical acceptance’: Yiyun Li lost both her sons to suicide. Her rigorous memoir reveals her as a very special writer

“My husband and I had two children and lost them both,” writes Yiyun Li early in her latest book, Things in Nature Merely Grow. And then, with harrowing directness, “Both chose suicide”.

The Conversation

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li review – a shattering account of losing two sons

The novelist’s meditation on grief, memory and radical acceptance contains both horror and comfort

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

‘My sadness is not a burden’: author Yiyun Li on the suicide of both her sons

As her memoir of losing her sons is published, the author talks about radical acceptance, and how writing fiction helped her to prepare for tragedy

The Guardian - UK

‘This is a book we need now’: Sara Collins on choosing this year’s Booker winner

After reading more than 150 books over seven months, the judges voted unanimously in favour of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital – which pulled them as far away as possible from our planet

The Guardian - UK

‘Her stories are life itself’: Yiyun Li on the genius of Alice Munro

The Chinese American author of The Book of Goose pays tribute to the late writer, reflecting on the rich rewards of revisiting her stories over many years

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li review – motherhood as loss

These bruising, beautiful short stories explore the pain of lost children, along with parenthood’s more usual sacrifices – youth, romantic love and a sense of self

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li review – dialogues with death

Sudden losses are everywhere in the Chinese American writer’s controlled, contemplative stories

The Guardian - UK

'Wednesday's Child' deals in life after loss

The stories in Yiyun Li's book focus chiefly on people trying to put themselves together after loss, dealing with anguish that takes its time and rises from its dormancy at unexpected moments.

WEKU

Yiyun Li's 'The Book of Goose' wins PEN/Faulkner award

Yiyun Li’s “The Book of Goose" has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction

The Independent UK

Yiyin Li's 'The Book of Goose' among PEN/Faulkner finalists

Yiyun Li’s novel about the friendship of two girls in post-World War II France, “The Book of Goose,” and Dionne Irving’s “The Islands,” a story collection set everywhere from London to New Jersey, are among the finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction

The Independent UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February

Critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

‘I want to savour every word’: the joy of reading slowly

Bragging rights seem to go to people who devour books, but, as this impatient reader found, turning the pages over many days or even weeks can immerse one deeper in the writer’s world

The Guardian - UK

The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li review – a haunting fable of friendship

Yiyun Li is a fascinating and unclassifiable writer, and brings insight and depth to a tale of two French girls spreading their wings

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li – clever, witty novel of friendship

The writer explores the bond between two French teenagers in her profound and dramatic seventh novel

Tribune News Service

Review: 'The Book of Goose,' by Yiyun Li

FICTION: From the author of prizewinning novels and nonfiction, an unsettling portrait of a noxious friendship in postwar France.

The Guardian - UK

Yiyun Li: ‘I’m not that nice friendly Chinese lady who writes… Being subversive is important to me’

The Chinese American author, whose life has been shaped by tragedy, talks about her strange new novel set in rural France

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.