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Raised in California and living in Seoul, novelist Krys Lee wrestles with Korean identities

Sept 7, 2016

Standing in the heart of Koreatown, novelist Krys Lee turned around. Was this direction to the Korean market where her family made a pilgrimage every weekend and her mother would rent her cache of K...
Children’s author, illustrator of Llama Llama stories dies

Sept 7, 2016

MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP) -- Best-selling children’s book author and illustrator Anna Dewdney, who gained fame with her series of Llama Llama stories, has died at age 50. Dewdney, who had a 15-month ...
'My GoldStar phone' wins Soorim literary award

Sept 5, 2016

A novel about a young aspiring writer has won a literary prize co-awarded by Yonhap News Agency and the Soorim Cultural Foundation, the news agency said Monday. “My GoldStar phone” by Kim Hena tells...
Expressing sorrow of black Americans

Aug 31, 2016

“The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race” By Jesmyn Ward Scribner (240 pages, $25) The murder last year of nine people at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, epito...
Jessica Winter's debut looks at the 1 percent

Aug 31, 2016

“Break in Case of Emergency” By Jessica Winter Knopf (288 pages, $25.95) Jessica Winter’s debut novel, “Break in Case of Emergency,” is an interesting study of the 1 percent and those striving to ...
Old Hollywood glamour in 'Platinum Doll'

Aug 31, 2016

“Platinum Doll” By Anne Girard MIRA Books (352 pages, $15.99) “Madame Picasso” author Anne Girard takes on another bewitching figure from the past in “Platinum Doll,” a charming fictionalized acco...
Tom Wolfe talks Darwin, Chomsky and human speech

Aug 31, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) -- After satirizing everything from “radical chic” to 20th century architecture, Tom Wolfe is now mining the mystery of language and the reputation of the most influential linguist of o...
Alex Marwood delivers gripping cautionary tale

Aug 31, 2016

Cover of “The Darkest Secret” by Alex Marwood (Penguin Books) “The Darkest Secret” (Penguin Books) By Alex Marwood The disappearance of a child whose body is never found eventually implodes a fam...
In North Korea, a hard-boiled (and fictional) cop keeps watch

Aug 29, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) -- The hero, a police inspector, prowls a city known more for its political malevolence than its street crime. If you read the local newspapers, you could think it’s a city with almost ...
Han Kang's award-winning novel hits German market

Aug 25, 2016

Han Kang’s novel “The Vegetarian” has received enthusiastic responses from German news media upon being released in the European country, a state-run literary agency said Wednesday. The novel has go...
Tiny Spanish publisher clones world's most mysterious book

Aug 24, 2016

BURGOS, Spain (AFP) - It's one of the world’s most mysterious books, a centuries-old manuscript written in an unknown or coded language that no one -- not even the best cryptographers -- has cracked....
Korean literature magazine becomes more inclusive

Aug 24, 2016

Korean Literature Now features contributions by international literary figures
Making of a ‘liberal icon’ charted

Aug 24, 2016

“Bobby Kennedy” By Larry Tye Random House (608 pages, $32) Unless you were old enough to remember the mid-1960s it might be hard to grasp the considerable impact the Kennedy family, particularly S...
Extraordinary characters brought to life

Aug 24, 2016

“The Muse” By Jessie Burton Harper Collins (352 pages, $27.99) “The Muse” asks a lot of its readers, in the best of ways. It asks us to pay close attention, given the unexpected paths that wander ...
Imagining surrealist battle against Nazis

Aug 24, 2016

“The Last Days of New Paris” By China Mieville Del Rey (205 pages, $25) Page for page, there is no one generating more utterly unfamiliar ideas than author China Mieville (“Perdido Street Station,...