In this Politics and Prose event, Yiyun Li talks about her latest novel, Music Against the Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026), and how art can sometimes be a way to shun life in a conversation with Rabih Alameddine. Li’s novel is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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