City of Fiction,” a novel by Yu Hua, follows a man on a search for his missing wife amid bandits and warlords.

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For all its agonies and loneliness, grief continually asserts itself as a creative force.

The Block Museum’s “Woven Being” is expansive yet concise, not so much a group exhibition as a mapping of diverse but related Indigenous art.