Min Jin Lee Was Underestimated for Half Her Life. Then She Started to Write.
A torch bearer for the great 19th-century tradition of social realism, she’s become one of the most important novelists of her generation.
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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 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.
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 author’s fiction falls prey to the very tropes she has argued against.
Her new book, American Hagwon, which explores education in Korea and America, might help with that.
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997.
“I feel like that’s the most fair thing you can do for a restaurant.”
Bestselling author Min Jin Lee is opening up about her favorite books. As part of her collaboration with Spotify, the music app that also offers hundreds of audiobooks, the Pachink...
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...
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I first encountered Min Jin Lee’s work in the spring of 2017. I was in the midst of my first writing residency and a writer I was having breakfast with couldn’t stop raving about L...
Min Jin Lee’s third novel struggles under the weight of its sociological questions.
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) joined acclaimed bestselling author and Queens native, Min Jin Lee, as the novelist launched her new book in New York City. Born in South Korea, Lee...
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...
Almost nothing survives of Lee Jin, the woman a French memoir records as "Li-Tsin." A court dancer in the final years of the 1392-1910 Joseon Dynasty, she is said to have sailed to...
“Kitchen Barbarians” by Jason Kwon The Lehman desk had been dead for six years, but still haunted the 47th floor of One Bryant Park. Jack Kwon could feel it some nights: the residu...
In 1938, more than 10 years before “the great leader had announced to the world the founding of the new China, the People’s Republic of China,” young sisters Mingyan and Shuyan lea...
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...
R. F. Kuang is the author of Yellowface, The Poppy War, and Babel. Check out an excerpt from her new novel, Taipei Story, out today.
Five years after Crying in H Mart, the author announces a new memoir about her year in Korea.
French novelist traces Korean history through a North Korean spy
I first read Fortress Besieged as a teenager, when the novel, originally published in 1947 and out of print for decades, became a bestseller in China after it was adapted into a TV...
For 23 years, a Japanese American family lived as on-site caretakers, but after the attack on Pearl Harbor they were removed from the property.
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