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The Seoul neighborhood of Bogwang-dong sits on a steep hill rising over the Han River. In Korean, neighborhoods built on hazardous slopes are called dal-dongnae,…
Victor Sebastyen, Lenin, Pantheon 2017, 363. In 1917, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was preoccupied with appointing the people that would run…
“The Nisha Chicken Salad” on Weight Watchers’s website bears little resemblance to the salad Nisha Godfrey went viral for in 2022. It is two cups…
South Lebanon is a lesson in steadfastness — an obstinate and determined testament to the willingness of an indigenous people to confront their occupier and…
On February 6, 2025 the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Lee Jae-myung spoke to the Economist and confirmed South Korea’s geopolitical dilemma.…
On Friday nights in the 1990s, the American family came under attack. Intruders penetrated the home: they stole food, lured children into moral decay, and…
While people in cities across the Global North are unable to access affordable housing, their comrades in the Global South are dispossessed of houses that…
Ann Goldstein’s new English translation of Italian-Cuban author Alba De Céspedes' debut novel, There’s No Turning Back (Nessuna Torno Indietro, 1938), is the first since…
True American exceptionalism doesn’t spring from the nation’s statehouses but from its garbage cans. The contemporary US is objectively extraordinary in that virtually anyone, including…
On the second day of January 1985, the spirit took hold of Alice. She went out to heal the sick, and heal the sick she…