Tag: Korea
Marie Myung-Ok Lee: The End of Guns
December 2012We don’t have to imagine what a nation cleansed of guns would look like—plenty of other countries can show us. One writer recalls her year in gun-less South Korea.
American Nurse
July 2012American Nurse became our possession, the Party headquarters in Beijing told us, for only a week before Deng decided what to do with her
Don Lee: The Ethnic Literature Box
June 2012Christine Lee Zilka interviews Don Lee, author of the new novel The Collective, about cover-art Orientalism, character heritage, and the improbability of becoming a writer.
The Female Grotesque
January 2012South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon on subverting expectations, her use of grotesque language, and the state of feminism in Korea.
Burial
By Catherine Chung from a novel-in-progress, guest-edited by Alexander CheeJune 2008
She was limp and sweaty but I snuggled into the comfortable softness of her. They had cut her open, and she was whole. She looked very tired and sick; on her gown, blood bloomed like a slow flower.
