I went into “Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence” not knowing what to expect. I had picked it up at the recommendation of a friend, who said it was about languages and translation. She was right. At its heart, Babel is a book that explores the complexities of translation and how it intersects with power […]
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In a mysterious town that lies hidden in our collective subconscious, there’s a quaint little store where all kinds of dreams are sold. Day and night, visitors from all over the world shuffle in sleepily in their pajamas, lining up to purchase their latest adventure. That’s the premise of Dallergut’s Dream Department Store (달러구트 꿈 […]
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Han Kang has been one of my favourite authors since I first read her novel on the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, Human Acts, two years ago. A harrowing, painfully poignant tale about those whose lives were shattered, or as she put it in this book, irreversibly altered by the tragedy; people who had at one time […]
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The Lunar Treehouse 