Today, Elsewhere
The New York Times profiles Chinese dissident, poet and storyteller Liao Yiwu, currently living in exile in Germany. Mr Liao’s prison memoir, For a Song and a Hundred Songs, will be released in Australia and New Zealand on 22 May.
What is the point of the paperback? (In Australia, where we don’t have such a pronounced hardback-to-paperback tradition, this may be better thought of as ‘What is the point of the subsequent smaller format edition?’)
