Ling Ma’s prescient 2018 debut novel, “Severance” (no relation to the popular Apple TV Plus show), was set in a world where a virus turns people into zombies fated to repeat on a loop an ...

I dissent. In “Peking Duck,” one of the standout stories in Ling Ma’s collection, “Bliss Montage,” a young writer presents an early copy of her new book to her mother. It’s a story ...