The writing of a memoir — especially one subtitled “A True Love Story” — presents an inherent challenge: the author’s self-revelation risks devolving into rank confession and undermining the larger ...

A sensual love story set against Burma’s brutal dictatorship. Karen Connelly’s award-winning debut novel, The Lizard Cage, earned her comparisons to George Orwell and Nelson Mandela, and her second ...

I said that I would find the place myself. I wanted to walk through the city, into Chinatown. “No, thank you. I do not want a ride, it’s all right.” The pause at the other end of the phone was so long ...

'Good travel is like good reading," observes Canadian writer Karen Connelly in "Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story" (Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday, $27.95). "You go inside a new world and you cannot resist ...

Karen Connelly was deemed something of a prodigy in 1993, when, at age 24, she won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal. Connelly has continued to astound, most ...

Told from the perspective of artists, musicians and other performers who are trying to pursue their art, Sandaya: Burmese Lessons is a music-theatre performance that covers nearly twenty years of ...

What is it like to live in a society where you are muzzled, where everything you say is overheard and reported? Told from the perspective of artists, musicians and other performers who are trying to ...

Thus I learn my destiny. I will never leave this city. I will return to this street and find a house here and adopt children as beautiful as these ones, or as beautiful as these spirits, it doesn't ...

As the People's Republic of China approaches the 60th anniversary of its founding, Beijing has been unpleasantly surprised by the sudden outbreak of unrest on its long border with Burma. It's a lesson ...