A protest ended in a massacre when the Chinese army opened fire on students in Tiananmen Square, 1989
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88 2019: THE YEAR OF THE TROLL?
MICHAL HVORECKÝ
The award-winning Slovak novelist speaks to Sally Gimson about how “fake news” inspired his dystopian novel Troll, an extract of which is translated here into English for the first time
94 GHOST WRITERSJEFFREY WASSERSTROM
On the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, Rachael Jolley speaks to the US author to discuss state control in China. We also publish his exclusive short story
100 PROTESTING THROUGH POETRYRADU VANCU
Returning from one of his daily protests, the Romanian poet talks to Lewis Jennings and introduces his poems translated for Index
