By Bill Marx
You want a racy, nineteenth-century epic about sex, sin, drugs, and prostitution set in China? Here it is.

Two more pieces on international fiction for World Books, the feature I edit for PRI’s The World.
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By Bill Marx
I am juggling editing and writing duties between two blogs, theartsfuse and World Books for the website of BBC/PRI’s radio program The World, which is produced at WGBH in Boston. The section aims to be a critical conversation made up of reviews, commentaries, interviews, podcasts, and news stories about international literature. Respected [...]