On Saturday evening, South Korean author Kim Choyeop was greeted by a packed auditorium at Foyles on Charing Cross Road. It was her first book talk in English, and she admitted to feeling a little nervous. She seemed genuinely surprised … Continue reading Kim Choyeop: Exploring Human Emotions Through Science Fiction [Event]
I wonder what I might discover if I stepped into the memory bookshop imagined in the novel by Song Yu-jeong, translated by Shanna Tan. Would I encounter the memories of my own life, arranged as neatly as those in the … Continue reading The Memory Bookshop [Book Review]
Yun Ko-eun’s stories are intense, atmospheric, and at times almost illogical — yet always compelling. In person, however, she is calm and warm; she laughs easily, and I find myself laughing with her in a small café near Covent Garden, … Continue reading Crosswalks, the Absurd, and the Stories in Between: In Conversation with Yun Ko-eun
Fractals of Longing: Exploring Identity and Connection in Han Kang’s Europa Writing novels has always had a special pull for Han Kang, as she reflected in her recent essay Light & Thread, delivered during her Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance … Continue reading Europa [Book Review]
Seated in the elegant surroundings of the Tate Britain restaurant, I overhear two friends catching up. One of them enthusiastically shows the other the results of her sleep app. She points to a graph and wonders where it indicates she … Continue reading Dallergut Dream Department Store [Book Review]
