BOOKS

The Beasts Within

Yan Ge’s zoological thriller blurs the boundary between savagery and civilization

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Fiction: Sixty-Degree Grassland Liquor

A clash of values on the fast-disappearing Mongolian grassland

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Fiction: The Doctor

Resurrecting Mongolian mythology with writer Surina

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Fiction: Our Family Secret

Writer Yang Fei captures the suffocating yet familiar patterns of domestic life in this enigmatic tale

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Fiction: Getting Lucky

Part 2 of Kang Fu’s whimsical modern take on “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio”

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Fiction: Help Wanted

Ever feel like your employees are keeping a secret from you?

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Give Me a Girl at Age Eighteen

Feng Tang’s once-scandalous debut has aged as badly as its adolescent narrator

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Ticket to Tomorrow

In this short sci-fi tale, two friends take different paths to the future—but only one will make peace with the present

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Fiction: The Socialite

As a fading Chinese-American aristocrat meets the mainland’s nouveau riche, they discover that the more things change, the more they stay the same