Hessler is the author of The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and is also a ...

Join ChinaFile for an evening with author Peter Hessler to discuss his new book, Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. Hessler will be in conversation with National Public Radio’s Asia Editor, Vincent Ni ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jamie Gordon and Courtney Potts of Fugitive Films are producing. “River Town” depicts a celebrated American writer’s journey to ...

A decade ago, shortly before Peter Hessler moved to Cairo, an acquaintance told him that Egypt's capital never seemed to change. This was meant as a criticism, but to Hessler, a New Yorker staff ...

Between 2001 and 2010, Peace Corps volunteer-turned-New Yorker writer Peter Hessler delivered three entertaining, richly detailed books on China told through his interactions with everyday people.

Peter Hessler records his amazing experiences in fast-changing societies like China in his collection of essays Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West. [Photo/Provided to China Daily] ...

In this week's issue, Peter Hessler writes about how the Egyptian revolution has played out Abydos, a small village in Upper Egypt. Here Sasha Weiss speaks with Hessler about why he likes to report ...

At Wednesday's IOP Forum, journalist Peter Hessler discussed his research in Fuling, China, detailing the changes he observed in the geography, economy, and people as a result of China’s ...

Update: On Thursday, Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled that a third of the country's parliament was elected illegally, and ordered the legislature dissolved. This week in the magazine, Peter ...

New Yorker staff writer Peter Hessler. Photo by Darryl Kennedy. Hessler was able to spend months on the story since he now lives in nearby Ridgeway, Colorado with his wife and daughters. He put in the ...

In early January, New Yorker writer Peter Hessler sat down with a reporter from China Daily for an interview. Weeks later, an editorial appeared in the publication bearing his name — but he didn't ...

At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Pallavi Aiyar reviews Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hessler, former China correspondent for The New Yorker. She discusses the tight focus ...