Join Jock Serong at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival with Muhammad Subhan, Lijia Zhang and Anna Weidenholzer for ‘Social Studies’.

The Financial Times recently declared novels as ‘the new textbooks of history’. Can the novel be an agent of social change? From interpersonal interactions to societal shifts, the power of fiction to help us imagine and try to understand the lives of others cannot be underestimated. These writers are using fiction to unflinchingly explore reality, both past and present.