American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee
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A spoiler-free review of American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee: fifteen years in the life of one Korean family across Seoul, Sydney and Orange County, and the private tutoring industry th...
The author talks with David Remnick about leaving corporate law to become a novelist, and making Korean culture and experiences legible to readers around the globe.
Min Jin Lee’s third novel struggles under the weight of its sociological questions.
A torch bearer for the great 19th-century tradition of social realism, she’s become one of the most important novelists of her generation.
The first known Filipino American memoir, Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart, was published in 1946. The next wouldn’t appear on the American literary landscape for nearly 60...
Her last novel sold 5m copies and was adapted into a hit series. Nearly 10 years on, the Korean-American author has written another epic. She discusses ambition and the diagnosis t...
The director Lee Chang-dong excavates the traumas of contemporary Korean history in starkly personal terms.
How the sudden pop-cultural dominance of part white, part Asian Americans triggered a collective identity crisis.
Back in 2015, when I was living in Brooklyn, my apartment flooded. My landlord, who owned a bunch of apartments, offered to put me up in temporary accommodations. He and his girlfr...
The author’s fiction falls prey to the very tropes she has argued against.
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North South Man Woman- Love, friction and freedom across the Korean divide
On the wooden veranda of a traditional Korean house, its lattice doors covered in paper, a young couple sits facing each other and smiling. The American husband, hair cropped short...
Welcome to one of the most compelling coming-of-age books I have ever sampled. A Korean American girl in New York is one of a dozen high schoolers selected from around the U.S. to...
Her new book, American Hagwon, which explores education in Korea and America, might help with that.
Last week, I watched the 2026 Class Day address delivered by Lee Min Jin, the world-renowned author of "Pachinko." Her reflections on the Korean diaspora, spanning from Japanese co...
French novelist traces Korean history through a North Korean spy
“They’re kind of shocked when I tell them I’m not American. Then they’re really disappointed that I’m not French either, because they love French people,” a young woman explained t...
The bestselling author R.F. Kuang has broken her silence over backlash to the inclusion of a minor Israeli character in her newest novel, Taipei Story. The book, published last wee...
The rising Korean actress brings her acclaimed American indie romance with Son Sukku to Busan, where she’s also serving on the festival’s main competition jury led by Chinese filmm...
Foreigners is a book that is predominately set about 60 years ago in 1966. And yet, of the four novels that I’ve written (three of which are contemporary—this is my first historica...
In 2020, Lois and Dave Cho became the first Korean American winemakers in Oregon when they launched CHO Wines in the Willamette Valley. The fast-growing winery quickly amassed a fo...
June Nakashima, whose working-class Japanese American family lived in a section of Hilo known as Kimiville, lost her parents in the 1960 tsunami that devastated the region; when sh...
In western Seoul’s vibrant Hongdae neighborhood, a celebration of Filipino music and culture transformed a live music venue into a space where the community felt closer to home. Fi...
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