Yale

Language lessons: Taipei Story, by Rebecca Kuang, reviewed

5 September 2026 9:00 am

Lily Chen, a Chinese-American Yale student, hopes to master Mandarin on a summer course in Taiwan. But matters soon begin to unravel in this idiosyncratic coming-of-age story

Edmund de Waal’s diary: Selling nothing, and why writers need ping-pong

10 October 2015 9:00 am

On the top landing of the Royal Academy is the Sackler Sculpture Corridor, a long stony shelf of torsos of…