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Exports to US reach all-time high, widen gap with China
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Trump rekindles criticism: US forces defending 'wealthy' S. Korea 'free of charge'
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[Music in drama] Rekindle a love that slipped through your fingers
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S. Korea discussed possible participation in AUKUS Pillar 2 with Australia: defense minister
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[New faces of Assembly] Architect behind ‘audacious initiative’ believes in denuclearized North Korea
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On May Day, labor unions blast Yoon's foreign nanny proposal
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Seoul Metro to seek legal action against malicious complaints
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Illit, mired in controversy, remains on Billboard charts for 5th week
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[KH Explains] Will alternative trading platform shake up Korean stock market?
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S. Korea lowers COVID-19 warning level, lifts last-remaining antivirus mandates
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‘Hopper’ bio sketches troubled rebel
Like a stoned Forrest Gump, Dennis Hopper always managed to be where the action was in American pop culture history.When James Dean was inventing the Angry Young Man in “Rebel Without a Cause,” Hopper was on the set (and in the movie).When Andy Warhol was turning the art world on its ear, Hopper was buying one of his early soup cans (and went on to scoop up Rauschenbergs and Ruschas). When the old movie studio system was dying, Hopper used the success of “Easy Rider” to help drive a nail in the
April 18, 2013
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Self-published book hits best-seller lists
SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas (AP) ― After a feverish month of inspiration, Colleen Hoover had finally fulfilled her dream of writing a book.With family and friends asking to read the emotional tale of first love, the married mother of three young boys living in rural East Texas and working 11-hour days as a social worker decided to digitally self-publish on Amazon, where they could download it for free for a week.“I had no intentions of ever getting the book published. I was just writing it for fun,’’
April 18, 2013
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Complicated nature of relationships
A Cold and Lonely PlaceBy Sara J. Henry (Crown)Most of us thrive on human contact ― spouses, friends, family. But for others who have been wounded by the people they love most, isolation in a cold and lonely place may seem like paradise.That sense of severing all previous ties and never truly getting close to people permeate Sara J. Henry’s second insightful second novel. As she did in her 2012 Agatha-winning debut, “Learning to Swim,” Henry explores the complicated nature of relationships while
April 18, 2013
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The effect of political cartoons
The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring PowerBy Victor S. Navasky (Knopf)Few people afflict the comfortable more savagely and effectively than political cartoonists. In “The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power,” veteran magazine editor Victor S. Navasky investigates how they work and celebrates some of the greats, from pioneering artist William Hogarth to contemporary caricaturist David Levine.His book features 76 black-and-white illustrations pl
April 18, 2013
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Fiction Pulitzer returns and Adam Johnson wins it
NEW YORK (AP) ― Adam Johnson’s “The Orphan Master’s Son,’’ a labyrinthine story of a man’s travails in North Korea, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, restoring a high literary honor a year after no fiction award was given.Pulitzer judges on Monday praised Johnson’s book as “an exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart.’’ It was the third book by the 45-year-o
April 16, 2013
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Novelist goes deep into heart of Texas
Scratchgravel RoadBy Tricia Fields (Minotaur)“ScratchgravelRoad”has a gritty heroine, a rugged border landscape and extreme Texas weather ― pretty much everything you’d expect in a mystery from an author based in ... Indiana?This is the second novel featuring Josie Gray, police chief in the economically strapped West Texas town of Artemis. She battled Mexican drug cartels in Tricia Fields’ debut mystery “The Territory,” which won the Tony Hillerman Prize.In “Scratchgravel Road,” Chief Gray must
April 11, 2013
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Book reveals all that we miss in our lives
All That IsBy James Salter(Knopf)Before becoming a full-time writer, 87-year-old James Salter was a fighter pilot, and he has written often and well about flying.“All That Is,” Salter’s first full-length novel in more than 30 years, isn’t ostensibly about flying at all, even if its protagonist does a brief stint in a plane toward the end of World War II. But the experience of reading this book is akin to one’s panoramic view, when aloft and moving fast. You can see a lot, albeit briefly and ofte
April 11, 2013
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Caroline Kennedy becomes ambassador to world of poetry
Poetry doesn’t get enough credit as a social activity, Caroline Kennedy says.“More and more kids are memorizing poems together or participating in poetry slam teams,” she says. “For kids, if you do something with your friends, it makes it a lot more fun.”Her own experience has run the gamut from reciting four-liners as a child living in the White House to receiving classic lines translated from “Metamorphoses” as a Christmas present from her Latin-loving daughter.So does Kennedy even have specia
April 11, 2013
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New biography of C.S. Lewis explores the man behind ‘Narnia’
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), the author of “The Chronicles of Narnia,” “Mere Christianity” and “The Screwtape Letters,” was far from a perfect human being, and, Christian that he was, would have been the first to admit it.Nonetheless, in a new biography of the writer and scholar, Alister McGrath quickly piles up good reasons for a reader to like Lewis. The writer disliked denominational squabbling and literary theory; he stood in favor of animals, alcohol and reading old books.To the tip the scales e
April 11, 2013
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Nominees named for English translation prize
NEW YORK (AP) ― A novel by Romanian-born German Nobel laureate Herta Muller is among the finalists for prizes given for best English language translations of fiction and poetry.Muller’s “The Hunger Angel’’ was translated from German by Philip Boehm and has been nominated for a Best Translated Book Award.Ten fiction works and six poetry books were announced Wednesday by Three Percent, a center for international literature that’s based at the University of Rochester in New York. Winning authors an
April 11, 2013
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Lev Dodin shares passion for Chekhov
It’s been more than a century since Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) died, but his works dominate the life of Russian theater director Lev Dodin. “I don’t think of Chekhov as a dead man,” said the Russian director at a press conference on Tuesday, promoting Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” he brought to Seoul. “I always talk to Chekhov. His works are what give me the joy of creating art. I feel like he is still very much present in the contemporary world.”This is Dodin’s second time staging Chekhov’s work in
April 11, 2013
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Ancient Rome’s influence on America
A growing number of Koreans learn English, consume fast food and watch Hollywood movies regularly as in other places of the world, but the idea of what America really is still evokes, if anything, fuzziness.In "Rome, the Stolen Gem of America," author Choi Yong-sik attempts to draw up a clearer picture of America by identifying its cultural and historical link with ancient Rome.Choi shows how the present-day U.S. evolved from the Roman Republic since the Declaration of Independence in the 18th c
April 11, 2013
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Korean publishing houses head to London Book Fair
A total of 14 local publishing houses and literary organizations are participating in this year’s London Book Fair, according to the Korean Publishers Association.The participating publishers and organizations include Literature Translation Institute of Korea, Kong & Park, Inc., YeaRimDang Publishing Co., Ltd. and Sakyejul Publishing. The publishers will be exhibiting their books during the festival and seeking opportunities to publish them overseas.LTI Korea and the British Council are also joi
April 9, 2013
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Book builds on masterful world
AngelopolisBy Danielle Trussoni(Viking)John Milton, the 17th-century writer and poet, is perhaps most responsible for giving Satan and his rebel angels celebrity status. In “Paradise Lost,” Milton imagines the fallen angels as “all monstrous, all prodigious things,” presenting them as the heroes of his epic work explaining humanity’s fall from grace and justifying “the ways of God to man.” From the novels in Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series to films like “The Matrix,” Milton’s masterp
April 4, 2013
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Missing woman shakes up Southern town
The Next Time You See MeBy Holly Goddard Jones (Touchstone Book)The small-town setting of “The Next Time You See Me,” Holly Goddard Jones’ debut novel, is no place for the faint of heart. The more we see of the people who live here, the easier it is to understand what one character means when he says it’s best to lay low and live “a small life, a sad life.”Especially if you’re different. Because Roma, Kentucky, circa 1993, is a place where cruelty is “the way of the world” and kindness “an anoma
April 4, 2013
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Americans caught in Great Recession undertow
In the official estimation of government economists, the Great Recession ended in 2009. But in Barbara Garson’s new book, it lives on. And for the people whose stories she tells, the Great Recession may never die.“They didn’t retire, and they didn’t find jobs,” Garson writes, describing the four New York professionals whose stories open “Down the Up Escalator: How the 99% Live in the Great Recession.” They call themselves “The Pink Slip Club.” It’s a group that never loses any members, because n
April 4, 2013
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Poet finds new muse
Atlanta poet Collin Kelley was at a London gallery in 2010, taking in a retrospective of photographer Sally Mann, when he was gobsmacked by something in the Virginia-born artist’s otherworldly, black-and-white images. He saw eerie parallels to his own work ― the poetry he’d set aside years earlier to focus on writing fiction.He had a collection of poems that had been “kind of floating around” since 2008, enough for a book. He’d given it a couple of titles, combined different poems, changed the s
April 4, 2013
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Lee inspires Japanese writer
Celebrated Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto is writing a serial romance novel inspired by popular Korean actor and singer Lee Seung-gi, Lee’s local agency announced on Monday.The author, who has a large fan base in Korea for her previous works such as “Kitchen” and “Amrita,” has started writing the serial novel in six installments, featuring Lee as its protagonist. The novel will be published in Anan, a Japanese beauty and fashion magazine. The first installment will be published in its April 10
April 1, 2013
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Korean novel shines in Lithuania
Korean author Ha Il-ji’s 2009 novel “The Republic of Uzupis” has been selected as one of the 12 best translated books of 2012 by Lithuania’s government-affiliated literary organization. A tale about a middle-aged man who wanders in search of an imaginary country, the novel was translated into Lithuanian by Korean translator Seo Jeon-seok with the support of Literature Translation Institute of Korea and published in Lithuania in 2012. “Filled with humor and mystique, the novel tells the story of
March 31, 2013
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Faulkner letters, manuscripts to sell
NEW YORK (AFP) ― Letters, an unpublished short story and other documents penned by ground-breaking American novelist William Faulkner are expected to fetch more than $2 million at auction this June.Sotheby’s in New York announced the June 11 sale, which it called “the largest and most important group of William Faulkner material ever to appear at auction.”Highlights include letters that show the author’s life in Paris during the 1920s and a 12-page story called “The Trapper’s Story,” which was n
March 31, 2013