Nick Holdstock is the author of The Casualties, a novel out from St. Martin’s Press, and two books of nonfiction — China’s Forgotten People and The Tree That Bleeds.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Find this, Americans, and get it into your bones
— The Dying Grass and other Dreams of William T. Vollmann...

For a Song: Liao Yiwu’s Prison Memoir
THE CHINESE POET LIAO YIWU first came to the attention of English-speaking readers when several of his interviews appeared in The ...

Eternal Sleep: The Uyghur Shrines of the Taklamakan Desert
THERE ARE MOSQUES in towns all over China, but the most concentrated signs of Islamic belief are found in the western ...

The Art of Escape: On Sven Lindqvist’s “The Myth of Wu Tao-tzu”
1. LAST MONTH I WAS CAUGHT by a painting in a gallery in London. In the picture people were playing cricket. ...

Jumping the Dragon Gate: Life in Shaoyang
I lived in Shaoyang, a city in Hunan province famous for clementines and murder....
