FOXBOROUGH, MASS. — Ha Jin is a winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His day job secure at Boston University, he and his wife live in a fine suburban house, close ...

In 724 A.D., the twenty-three-year-old poet Li Bai got on a boat and set out from his home region of Shu, today’s Sichuan province, in search of Daoist learnings and a political career. He wasn’t ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ha Jin was never terribly interested in learning English. After the ...

Over the last two decades, Ha Jin has become one of America’s most celebrated writers. His stories and novels have received the PEN/Hemingway Prize, the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the ...

NEW YORK — Ha Jin’s “War Trash,” the fictional story of a Chinese prisoner during the Korean War, and Philip Short’s “Pol Pot,” a biography of the Cambodian dictator, were among the finalists ...

Over the course of several months, Paula E. Geyh, the review editor of Postmodern Culture, corresponded with the acclaimed author Ha Jin, conducting a long-term interview. Mr. Jin, a writing professor ...

On a recent morning, Ha Jin is waiting in the lobby of the Sheraton La Guardia East Hotel in Flushing at the last stop of the 7 train—the pipeline to Citi Field and to what has steadily evolved, since ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Jane Hu A SONG EVERLASTING By Ha Jin Ha Jin’s new novel begins with its Chinese protagonist ...

The fictional character of the troubled artist, so often plagued by introspective maunderings, can make even a sympathetic reader long to escape. Into Stella Gibbons’s masterpiece “Cold Comfort Farm,” ...