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

We’re only halfway through 2025, but there have already been plenty of standout books published this year. There’s been ...

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 ...

Medina, who has served as an editor at Random House for nearly four decades and worked with such authors as John Irving and ...

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

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

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 ...

Yiyun Li’s Unsparing Memoir of Life After Two Sons’ Suicides In Things in Nature Merely Grow, the Chinese-American author writes past grief’s clichés. Jane Hu / June 11, 2025.

Li-Fi functions as a Visible Light Communications system; at its core, data is transferred from LED light bulbs.These bulbs carry pulses of light that produce information similar to Morse code. No ...