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Why Han Kang’s Nobel Matters
My mother’s generation experienced unspeakable violence. Han found the words for it.
Yung In Chae
Conversations
Finding a Literary Inheritance
Four Korean American writers on jeong and the elusiveness of home
Alexander Chee,
Julia Cho,
Susan Choi,
and
Cathy Park Hong
Meaning is in crisis. And we are embroiled, everywhere, in contests over meaning—which are also contests of power, contests over living. And dying.
Christina Sharpe The Shapes of Grief
The Yale Review’s Political Archive
What six historical pieces reveal about American democracy today
James Surowiecki
National Book Award Finalists
Chantal Akerman’s Elusive Interiors
What the filmmaker’s portrayal of women reveals—and withholds
Emily LaBarge
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