Published by the Gwangju International Center since 2001
Written by Kristy Dolson Happy New Year! A new year elicits new resolutions to improve ourselves. Maybe you want to experience new activities? Maybe you want to read more? Maybe … Read More
Reviewed by Kristy Dolson Hurray for the holidays. It is a time for peace, love, and joy to all. Unless you’re a holiday-hating curmudgeon. But who among us doesn’t … Read More
Reviewed by Kristyna Zaharek I bought The Windup Girl in a set with a few others from a departing teacher. I hadn’t heard of it before and didn’t know … Read More
Written by Douglas Baumwoll So, I get home from work, hurl my backpack onto the bed, tear it open, plunge my hand in, grope around in the mélange of papers, … Read More
Written by Amy Badenhorst I never fully understood the sadness, violence, and blood shed that occurred during the 5.18 Gwangju uprising until I read Human Acts by Han Kang. This … Read More
Written by Sashai Yhukutwana “We Should All Be Feminists is a brief and amusing book. You can bank on it being highly educational, too. One cannot help but have “Aha” … Read More
Written by Maddy Miller There are some things easily distinguishable as fact or fiction – that two plus two equals four, how much kimchi is too much kimchi, that twelve … Read More
“When you read Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita, you are guaranteed to experience a process of guilt as you uncover the sordid actions of the narrator Humbert Humbert as he forms an obsessive desire for his landlady’s 12-year-old daughter, Lolita.”
