As a student, I worked at a Japanese ramen restaurant in Germany. Though I am Korean, I was exotic enough to serve as staff. My lunch shift was from noon to 2 p.m. on the day the horror struck. The day I stood rooted...
Yeseul Park
Yeseul Park
My Complicated Love Story With Germany
[agg-ad id=”14519″ align=”left”][agg-ad id=”15486″ align=”center”] Our love affair is complicated and a bit hard to explain. I am speaking about my relationship with the...
Laksmi Pamuntjak: literary force of Indonesia talks of female ambiguity and “Asian literature” in the West
[agg-ad id=”14519″ align=”left”] When Laksmi Pamuntjak published her first volume of poems, Ellipsis, Herald UK selected it as one of the best books of 2005. She has written for Indonesian weekly...
A Day in the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016
[agg-ad id=”15486″ align=”center”] Stepping into the entrance hall of the Frankfurt Book Fair, I felt the busy and tense air even though it was only 9 in the morning. People seemed to be a little...