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Ling Ma's first novel predicted the pandemic. Her new collection goes one step beyond

Nothing is just one thing in Bliss Montage: Satire swirls into savagery; a gimmicky premise into poignancy. Ma writes with such authority that... Ling Ma's first novel predicted the pandemic. Her new ...
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Shen Fever

Severance Predicted the Slow-Burn Performance of Our PandemicLike Ling Ma’s protagonist, we haven’t been shot out of a cannon and into a new world. We’re watching it unfold like a digitally broadcast ...
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Ling Ma's first novel predicted the pandemic. Her new collection goes one step beyond

Ling Ma's 2018 debut novel, Severance, imagined a world ravaged by the sudden onset of something called "Shen Fever" — a fictitious infection that originated in Southern China. By early spring of 2020 ...