When, years ago, I studied Chinese at Leeds University, there was a set of volumes that resided only in the stacks downstairs in the Brother...

  Owlish is the story of Professor Q, a university lecturer in the city of Nevers. He is not a happy man: his wife refuses intimacy with hi...

It has always struck me that the sign of a good translation is that it should read as if doing it was easy. Of course, I know that is an ill...

  Nicky Harman reviews three books for young readers translated from Chinese .............................................. I have to ...

  Nicky Harman reads Zhang Ling’s latest historical novel, A Single Swallow (Amazon Crossing, 2020 .) One of the best-written novels I’ve...