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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.
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Fairy Tales
November 13, 2015
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 th…
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 w…
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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Courtesy of University of New Mexico Press / Stock.adobe.comThe Orphan (Isaac Luria)
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Photo by Daria ShchukinaUniversity of Oklahoma student Daria Shchukina recounts her recent trip to the 2024 ALTA conference and the impact it…
In June 2024 Pantheon published Tehrangeles, Porochista Khakpour’s latest novel (see WLT, Sept. 2024, 73). The novel satirizes…
