World newsfromwww.theguardian.com1 week agoRare footage from trial of Chinese general who defied Tiananmen crackdown order leaked onlineLeaked six‑hour footage shows PLA General Xu Qinxian refused orders to send the 38th Group Army into Beijing during the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.
Booksfromwww.npr.org2 months agoNew books this week dance between genres and deserve your attentionNotable new books blur and reinvent genre boundaries, mixing memoir, fiction, history, fantasy, and philosophy to explore memory, exile, family, and political trauma.