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Yi Yook-sa’s poems published in English

During his short life, Yi Yook-sa (1904-44), a Korean poet and independence activist, composed only about 40 poems. Yet his compelling poems, written during the darkest period of modern Korean histor...

Nov 19, 2014
Book Review
Translation award honors Suh Ji-moon

Scholar given Korean Literature Translation Award for ‘House with a Sunken Courtyard’

Nov 18, 2014
Book Review
Final volume of Hockney biography

David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012 By Christopher Simon Sykes (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) More than halfway through the second volume of his vivid, intimate biography of British artist David Ho...

Nov 13, 2014
Book Review
New thriller from Preston & Child

Blue Labyrinth By Douglas Preston and/Lincoln Child (Grand Central Pulishing) A family secret over 100 years old comes back to haunt FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast in Douglas Preston and Li...

Nov 13, 2014
Book Review
Denis Johnson explores dark side of Africa

The Laughing Monsters By Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Denis Johnson, winner of the National Book Award for his Vietnam-era opus “Tree of Smoke,” has jumped genres again in “The Laughing...

Nov 13, 2014
Book Review
‘Some Luck’ takes on an epic scope

Sometimes, the characters in Jane Smiley’s latest novel resemble the Osage-orange hedge that separates the field from the back acreage of Walter Langdon’s Iowa farm: “horse-high, bull-strong, and hog...

Nov 13, 2014
Book Review
Michael Connelly’s Bosch back with a new partner, old political battles

The Burning Room By Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) Politics often seeps into police investigations, especially when a high-profile case has officials from the city to the state level jockeying f...

Nov 13, 2014
Book Review
Bush wants Jeb to run for president

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) ― Former President George W. Bush said Tuesday that he believes his brother Jeb Bush should run for president but ultimately the former Florida governor must make a decisi...

Nov 13, 2014
Book Review
Brief Chaplin bio captures essence of ‘the Tramp’

In 1914, Keystone Studios released two short films that gave a world marching to war a reason to laugh. Their titles, “Kid Auto Races at Venice” and “Mabel’s Strange Predicament,” are far less memor...

Nov 6, 2014
Book Review
Marlon James writes Jamaican epic

It’s around 3 p.m. on Oct. 1, the biggest day in Marlon James’ career ― if not his life. His third novel, “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” hit bookstores with more buzz than a swarm of bees. Jam...

Nov 6, 2014
Book Review
Book collects best of Vanity Fair

Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers & Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair Edited by Graydon Carter (Penguin Press) Before Buzzfeed, before Spy, before Rolling Stone and the Paris Review, there was ...

Nov 6, 2014
Book Review
‘Spoiled Brats’ is original, hilarious

Spoiled Brats By Simon Rich (Little, Brown and Co.) Feel the humiliation of the widowed guinea pig, so beaten down he contemplates suicide and questions his Christian faith. See through the eyes o...

Nov 6, 2014
Book Review
‘Sometimes the Wolf’ tells engrossing story

Sometimes the Wolf By Urban Waite (William Morrow) A father-and-son relationship, perhaps broken beyond repair, fuels Urban Waite’s engrossing novel that skillfully exposes the complicated emotion...

Nov 6, 2014
Book Review
‘Killer Next Door’ is gripping mystery

The Killer Next Door By Alex Marwood (Penguin Books) Desperation brings six people to a decaying Victorian apartment house where the tenants’ desolation pales in comparison with one neighbor’s des...

Nov 6, 2014
Book Review
Revisiting Korea’s modern literature

The era of modern literature in Korea began in 1894 when the government launched sweeping reforms which called for establishing public schools, writing in Hangul, the Korean alphabet, instead of Chin...

Nov 4, 2014
Book Review

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