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Sarah Bakewell on Sartre, de Beauvoir and existential philosophy
Sarah Bakewell on Sartre, de Beauvoir and existential philosophy

“At the Existentialist Cafe” By Sarah Bakewell Other Press (439 pages, $25) Here’s a startling thought. Consider what you are doing right now without …

Pulling back the curtain on Paul Kagame’s Rwanda
Pulling back the curtain on Paul Kagame’s Rwanda

“Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship” By Anjan Sundaram Doubleday Books (208 pages, $25.95) In the early 1990s, the world watched in horror as …

Publishing’s lack of diversity fails readers: author Rai

HONG KONG (AFP) — As the film and music industries grapple with the fallout from the race controversy that dogged the Oscars and the Brit Awards, English …

Korean works, writers to be featured at Paris Book Fair
Korean works, writers to be featured at Paris Book Fair

Korea will be spotlighted as the guest of honor at the Paris Book Fair, to be held March 16-20 at the Paris Expo Porte de Versaille exhibition center, where a …

‘Renegade’ rule mom Heather Shumaker is back with new book
‘Renegade’ rule mom Heather Shumaker is back with new book

NEW YORK (AP) — Homework? Ban it! Circle time? It’s not for every kindergartner. Forced sharing? How about letting a kid play with a toy until she’s …

Michelin Guide to publish Seoul edition in late 2016

The Michelin Guide, an international benchmark of good food, said Thursday it will publish a guide of restaurants and hotels in Seoul later this year to …

First Korean cultural center opens in Middle East

South Korea will open a state-run facility for promoting Korean culture in Abu Dhabi Thursday, the first in the Middle East, the government said. The new …

Oyeyemi‘s original stories pay weird, wonderful homage to reading
Oyeyemi‘s original stories pay weird, wonderful homage to reading

“What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours: Stories” By Helen Oyeyemi Riverheard Books (336 pages, $27) Midway through the third and strongest of the nine stories in …

St. Pats set to return to Seoul
St. Pats set to return to Seoul

As the weather warms up, a little early spring greenery is set to grace D-Cube in Sindorim, Seoul. The Irish Association of Korea will be holding its annual …

‘Dear Korea’ spreads from pixels to paper

Her comics have been a mainstay of the expat webtoon world for years, but now Jen Lee will be putting “Dear Korea” to paper in a new book. The cartoons are …

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