Wang Bing's eight-hour doc, 'Dead Souls,' collects the testimony of survivors of a hard-labor camp in China's Gobi Desert in the late 1950s. By Clarence Tsui Though it runs over eight hours, Dead ...

“Dead Souls” (Catapult, 291 pages, $26)—not only because the novel centers on a poet who has gained popularity by creating thousands of fake followers on a social-media app, but also because ...