Book Review: The Corrections
Reviewed by Michael Attard || The Corrections By Jonathan Franzen 566 pages, Picador, 2002 (Original 2001) The family grew up in the American mid-western town of Saint Jude. Saint Jude … Read More
Category: Arts & Culture
Poetry: The Marbles We Lost to Time
By Tabbu Shaikh || Passing time… As it left, it stole so many of our things. And merely handed us the count of growing age upon our fingers. Now I … Read More
Poetry: Gentle Hand of Night
By Tamara Pantović When a terrible night with fiery wings crosses the river, calm waters begin to sing with a voice of endless pain and shudder. When the midnight wind … Read More
Blackpink: The Biggest Girl Group in South Korea
By Paul Singh || Blackpink is one of the most successful girl groups in the world. They obtained their success by combining the “girl crush” aesthetic from YG Entertainment with … Read More
Art Exhibition: Five Peaks, No Rules – A Conversation with the Past
By Reeti Roy || To stand before the Ilwol-obongdo, the folding screen known as the “Painting of the Sun, Moon, and Five Peaks,” is to encounter one of the most … Read More
The Calcuttan in Korea: The Ghosts and the Kinetic
By Reeti Roy || In Calcutta, where I am from, we inherit a certain faith of the mind. Not loudly, not as doctrine, but quietly, through habit. In the way … Read More
Movie Review: The Land of Morning Calm – The Shape of What Remains
By Farrukh Anique || In 2024, insurance fraud worth US$870,000 was committed in Korea, roughly half of it carried out through forged medical documents. This film’s story is, on its … Read More
Movie Review: The Pursuit of Happyness – Learning the Art of Hopeful Survival
By Tabbu Shaikh || At first glance, “happyness” is merely a misspelling on a daycare wall – a careless orthographical error painted over a place meant to nurture the future. … Read More