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But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to... →
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or... →
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your... →
It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says... →
I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal... →
The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose... →
I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare... →
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is... →
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