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China Miéville in conversation with The White Review

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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Allegory and Metaphor in Your Writings

The writer talks about the political resonance of his work. He says he likes to create worlds in which there are political things happening, but without being didactic or dictatorial. The idea of allegory and metaphor is important for him because it gives a wider sense of politics than polemical short stories.

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