An curved arrow pointing right. In August 2015, Getty Photographer Xiaolu Chu toured inside the walls of North Korea. While in the notoriously secret country, visitors are instructed on what they ...

Now, nearly 200 years later, Xiaolu Guo has blended fact, fiction and metafiction to reimagine the novel in the voice of another sailor, a teenage English girl named Ishmaelle, “born in a ...

In her exciting feminist reimagining of the classic, the 2020 Goldsmith’s Prize shortlisted author Xiaolu Guo instructs the reader to call the narrator Ishmaelle. Guo’s plot follows a similar ...