Thomas Meaney is the editor of Granta. He has reported for Harper’s and The New Yorker, and he writes for The London Review of Books. In 2022, he received the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Journalism. He is a member of the editorial committee of New Left Review and co-edits the Verso book series “Southern Questions.”
Last Updated: November 13, 2024
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11.13.24
‘A Nation Was Forged by Literary Writers’
from Granta
This year, I returned to a Beijing I hardly recognized. It was not the capital I first glimpsed as a child in the 1980s, when groups of men in thin jackets stood smoking in the cold, and tides of cyclists seemed ready to carry me away. Nor was it...