Dr. Kirsten Tranter is a visiting scholar in English at UC Berkeley. She publishes fiction, essays, journalism, and literary criticism, and is the author of three novels including The Legacy. Her interview with China Miéville appears in Contemporary Literature (Fall 2012).
In his rambling 2011 photo-essay “London’s Overthrow,” composed in the lead-up to the London Olympics, China Miéville takes his reader through the ever-changing, history-drenched streets of his beloved city ...