And here sat Maureen, who had no one else to send flowers to as sweet revenge. And here sat Lilian, who had thought that ...

Yiyun Li’s memoir, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” stuns with its lucidity and with the nightmarish facts that prompted its ...

If an abyss is where I shall be for the rest of my life’, writes Yiyun Li, ‘the abyss is my habitat.’ Her book is a major ...

Words not only are Li’s guilty pleasure, but are her way to “make some sense out of this senseless life.” For the writer, every book poses different challenges, just as, for a mother, every child does ...

In the second section of the story, we learn that Lilian has recently returned from a trip to Germany with her husband.

In her memoir “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” Yiyun Li tries to honor the lives, and accept the unfathomable deaths, of her ...

Yiyun Li’s memoir, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” stuns with its lucidity and with the nightmarish facts that prompted its ...

Yiyun Li’s memoir, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” stuns with its lucidity and with the nightmarish facts that prompted its writing. As Li explains, “My husband and I had two children and ...

Yiyun Li reads her story “Any Human Heart,” from the June 23, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “The Book of ...