News, Reviews, and Interviews In this article from the Korea Herald, translator Sora Kim-Russell points to a “dark, earthy humor” buried under the angst and sorrow in Korean literature.U…
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November 13, 2015
November 4, 2015Yuko Shimizu created the original illustrations that accompany Cunningham’s tales in A Wild Swan. The following is an excerpt from A Wild Swan, due out next wee…
November 4, 2015Michael Cunningham by Richard Phibbs.Courtesy of FS&G.What happens after “ever after”? Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours and A Home at the End of the…
July 29, 2015Illustrations by Andrea Dezsö, from The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, translated and edited by Jack Zipes (Princeton University Press, 2014). Reproduced by permission…
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