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  • UK newspaper to spotlight Korean poems in regular feature

    Korean poems will become a regular feature in the Guardian newspaper this year. The poems -- selected in partnership with Asymptote, a website specializing in translations of literature -- will be f...

    Feb 7, 2017

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  • New book details old New Orleans’ hooker directories

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- “Josie came to this city ... to have a good time and she is going to have it while she lasts,” one madam advertised in a 1903 directory of Storyville, then New Orleans’ flourishin...

    Feb 5, 2017

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    TRIPOLI (AFP) - Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho joined more than 100 Libyan writers and intellectuals Monday in condemning security forces for seizing books deemed “erotic” or anti-Islamic. Coelho’s...

    Jan 25, 2017

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  • Tips on using newspapers to learn English

    “English Learning Tips Based on English Newspapers ENIE” by Yang Sung-jin; Surprise Publishing (272 pages, 15,000 won) English newspapers in South Korea have a long history. The Korea Herald, for in...

    Jan 23, 2017

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  • Book spurs rising above theological comfort zone

    Evangelical Christians and reform-minded Protestants have reason to celebrate the recent publication of “Thinking the Think,” a book that critically engages their cherished beliefs and encourages the...

    Jan 20, 2017

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  • Korean novelist evokes horrors of Gwangju massacre

    “Human Acts: A Novel” by Han Kang; Hogarth (224 pages, $22) In May of 1980, the South Korean government turned its guns on its own people, murdering hundreds in the city of Gwangju who had been prot...

    Jan 20, 2017

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  • Audiobooks boom in digital, multitasking age

    NEW YORK (AFP) -- Curling up with a paperback may be a forgotten luxury for many thanks to today’s busy lifestyles, but listening to a book on the go, while shopping or jogging, is fast becoming the ...

    Jan 19, 2017

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  • ‘Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films’ Review -- Molly Haskell trains her keen eye on the director

    “Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films” By Molly Haskell Yale University Press (228 pages, $25) Film critics are not usually celebrated for their sense of charity. They’re not usually celebrated at al...

    Jan 13, 2017

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  • Korean edition of Playboy to be launched in June

    US magazine “Playboy” will start issuing a Korean version from June, a South Korean magazine publisher said Tuesday. Playboy Enterprises, the owner of the magazine, has signed a contract with Korea’...

    Jan 11, 2017

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  • Korean poet Ko Un to be honored by Italy's Fondazione Roma

    Poet Ko Un will receive an award from Italy-based Fondazione Roma, Changbi Publishers said Wednesday. According to the publisher, the poet was chosen as the recipient of the annual award presented t...

    Jan 11, 2017

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  • Julia Baird's biography gives the English monarch a beating heart

    “Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire” by Julia Baird; Random House (696 pages, $35) Queen Victoria dominated an age and inspired a word, “Victorian,” to captur...

    Jan 4, 2017

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    Tributes lie beneath a mural of singer David Bowie by artist Jimmy C in Brixton, south London on Jan. 12, last year. (AP-Yonhap) “David Bowie: The Last Interview and Other Conversations” by David Bo...

    Jan 4, 2017

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  • Beloved bookstore opens after 14 years, but it isn’t the same

    Standing six stories high at the center of downtown Seoul, Jongno Books was Korea’s first multilevel bookstore, established in 1907. It was a haven for writers and thinkers, offering not only Korean...

    Dec 28, 2016

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    Korea’s oldest bookstore will be brought back to life 14 years after its closing, local publishers said Thursday. Jongno Books, more commonly known as Jongno Seojeok, will relaunch Friday at Seoul’s...

    Dec 22, 2016

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    Dec 21, 2016

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