Category: Reviews
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Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
The assertive honesty of Sally Rooney’s characters is understandably divisive amongst readers because the characters in Beautiful World, Where Are You are about as likable as your own university friends. That is to say they’re completely ordinary people who make questionable dating decisions, are self-interested, and at times intolerable—but some reason or another connect with…
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The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun
This review was originally submitted as part of the Korean Literature Review Contest with the Literature Translation Institute of Korea and was titled: How Bureaucracy and Capitalism Contribute to Cataclysmic Complacency: a review of The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun because we like to have fun here. “Disaster and catastrophe aren’t just within the realm…
Only Naengmyeon 