Ling Ma made a bold entrance into the literary world with the release of “Severance” in 2018. Her debut novel received praise from critics and casual readers alike, earning a spot on the first ...

This combination of photos show cover art for "G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century" by Beverly Gage, left, and "Bliss Montage" by Ling Ma, winners of the National Book ...

Cornell alumna and renowned author Ling Ma MFA ’15 will be the second guest to hold a reading as part of the 2022 Barbara and David Zalaznick Reading Series on Thursday, March 10 in Klarman Hall, ...

While Ling Ma has already proven herself to be a dazzling storyteller after her first novel “Severance,” her debut short story collection intuitively breaks into the universal anxieties of modern life ...

I don’t usually get ensnared by a book. But Ling Ma’s short story collection, Bliss Montage, was different. I started reading it Thanksgiving morning and literally could not stop. There was something ...

John Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare, 1794. (Photo by Universal History Archive / Getty Images) I don’t know if Ling Ma is an insomniac, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that she is. For the ...

Novelist Ling Ma doesn’t shy away from taking risks with her writing. Her 2018 debut novel, “Severance,” is an apocalyptic satire that won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction and squarely put her on the map ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ling Ma’s sharp and surreal “Bliss Montage” and Beverly Gage’s sweeping biography of the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, “G-Man,” were among the winners Thursday night of the ...