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Anton Hur and Bora Chung's "Cursed Bunny" is longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award (NBA)

Han Kang grew up in Seoul, a city that embraces “thousands of years of turbulence.” She recommends reading that draws from the various eras that have made up her hometown.

"Even a Very Faint Light" By Choi Eun-young Munhakdongne Publishing Award-winning author Choi Eun-young of “Shoko’s Smile” returns with a collection of short stories, titled "Even a Very Faint Light.” This year marks the 10th anniversary of Choi’s literary debut. One of the most prominent young female writers in Korea of the past decade, Choi has delved into the intricate ...

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine: Endings & Experimentations: Conversations with Bora Chung and Anton Hur by Arley Sorg

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

Six novels feature characters who hunger for connection so strongly that they transform their environments. Credit...Ryan Gillett May 27, 2021, 9:55 a.m. ET Assembling columns is often an exercise in serendipity. For this one, I looked for works I thought would be wildly different from one another: a collection of short stories in translation, a debut about a single consciousness in multiple bodies, a young-adult techno-thriller, an Antarctic ghost story. But I was surprised to find, as I read ...

In the title story of I’m Waiting For You, the first of Korean science fiction writer Kim Bo-Young’s works to be translated into English, the unnamed protagonist says he felt he was prepared for solo space travel because he’d once spent a few months without leaving his home. After a year in which so much of the world has experienced an even more extreme version of such isolation, that idea might seem trite. But then the character goes on to explain how wrong he was: That wasn’t actuall...