By Colin Marshall Friends, friends of friends, and acquaintances often ask me if they should make a trip to South …
Sex, Surreality, and Social Conformity: Han Kang’s The Vegetarian Sprouts Onto the U.S. Literary Landscape
February 2016
PICO DIARY #2
By Jon Wiener Twenty little kids, two by two, wearing matching blue T-shirts, are walking down Pico and chattering away, …
The Cultural Revolution at 50: A Q&A with Four Specialists (Part One)
By Alexander C. Cook [Editors’ note: This is the first of a two-part roundtable interview we invited Alexander C. Cook, …
Between Boring Heaven and Exciting Hell: Kim Soo-yong’s ‘Night Journey’
By Colin Marshall This is the first in a series of essays on the important pieces of Korean cinema freely …
Coming Home
By Joshua Weiner “Berlin Notebook: Where Are the Refugees?” is a straightforward journal transcription of my experiences in Berlin during …
Refugees Bring New Energy to Germany
By Joshua Weiner “Berlin Notebook: Where Are the Refugees?” is a straightforward journal transcription of my experiences in Berlin during …
Making Something of It
By Joshua Weiner “Berlin Notebook: Where Are the Refugees?” is a straightforward journal transcription of my experiences in Berlin during …
Charity Benefits the Giver
By Joshua Weiner “Berlin Notebook: Where Are the Refugees?” is a straightforward journal transcription of my experiences in Berlin during …
When a Tree Falls
By Joanna Chen I land in Dulles Airport after a blizzard. A thick layer of snow covers the Lincoln Memorial; …
How Has Korea Become a “Silent Cultural Superpower”? The BBC Sends a Historian to Investigate
By Colin Marshall “I’ve been to China and I’ve been to Japan,” says Rana Mitter at the beginning of his …
