It’s 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker, but his weather-obsessed, sea-enamoured ...

Li Yuan-chia was born in 1929 in Guangxi, China. His early years were marked by displacement due to the Chinese Civil War, which led him to Taiwan at the age of 20. There, he became one of the ...

One of Hahn’s favorite novels is The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West, which she says perfectly captures the underbelly of ...