For the Thomas Mann House series "55 Voices for Democracy," novelist Alexandra Kleeman diagnoses the normalized sense of loss in American democracy.

Colin Marshall explores the difficulties of queer romance in Seoul in Sang Young Park's Novel "Love in the Big City."

We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel, was published in …

Spencer Cohen thinks about the ramifications of photographing aesthetic memorials.

Colin Marshall explores what goes into transforming into one's own murdered sibling in Kwon Yeo-sun's "Lemon."

Elissa Suh looks at how director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s exercises his own creativity in his adaptation of Haruki Murakami's "Drive My Car."

Shastri Akella considers the utility and limits of metonymy in Sabina Murray’s "The Human Zoo."

For the Thomas Mann House series "55 Voices for Democracy," Michael Zürn puts the concept of "liberal" democratic ideals under the microscope.

Nathan Scott McNamara talks with debut novelist and musician Tice Cin about her recent novel "Keeping the House."

Colin Marshall looks back on an earlier era of Korean TV dramas, before the glitz of contemporary K-Drama.