Yiyun Li in the news as a benchmark of excellence in literature; Chinese-born writer and professor in the U.S., Pulitzer-adjacent acclaim, celebrated for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. #literature #YiyunLi
A string of recent Guardian reviews examines contemporary relationships in fiction and TV, from Jem Calder’s I Want You to Be Happy to Virginia Evans’s The Correspondent and Jack Thorne’s Falling. Critics highlight how age gaps, digital culture, and media framings shape intimate lives, while epistolary form and love narratives remain central.