5 Must Read South Korean Novels (in English)
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to…
Book Review: The Men by Sandra Newman
You wake up one day and the men in your life have disappeared. Your husband, your son, your father and your brother are nowhere to be found. Everything’s eerily quiet…
Book Review: Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman
When I am in between books, I like to read short stories. I used to find all of my short fiction on acclaimed mainstream magazines. You got three or four…
Book Review: Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
I first came across Irish writer Sally Rooney through her second novel Normal People. It was a big hit on all the Amazon book lists when it was first released…
Book Review: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
I just finished reading ‘The Three Body Problem’ by Chinese author Liu Cixin. It’s the first of a sci-fi trilogy set in China, spanning several decades. It begins in 1960s…
Book Review: Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller
Trigger warning: any number of things When I first started reading Fox Girl by Nora Okja Keller, I had to put it away more than once. I even contemplated abandoning…
Book Review: Jenifer Lewis’s Memoir and K-Dramas to Watch
I started the year off by reading Jenifer Lewis’s memoir, The Mother of Black Hollywood. I first became aware of it in 2020, during lockdown. It must’ve been after the…
Book Review: Everything Belongs To Us by Yoojin Grace Wuertz
I just finished reading The Good Son, a crime thriller by You Jeong Jeong. A young man goes off his epilepsy medication and wakes up covered in blood one morning.…