American Enterprise Institute

Greek Lessons for the IMF

With Greece now well on its way to exiting the euro, it is not too early to draw lessons for the International Monetary Fun (IMF) from its unfortunate Greek lending program. Since never before has the ...
Los Angeles Times

Why ‘The Vegetarian’ author Han Kang’s newly translated novel is her gutsiest yet

How strange it is to be human. Plenty of authors have written about this peculiarity (some better than others), but Han Kang turns the well-worn idea of the mind-body disconnect into something fresh ...
The Irish Times

Greek Lessons by Han Kang: a writer in transition

It is a quirk of fiction in translation that a writer’s novels often appear in English in a different order to their original publication. In Korean, Greek Lessons was the follow-up to The Vegetarian ...
The Financial Times

Greek Lessons by Han Kang — lost for words

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the unnamed protagonist of Han Kang’s latest novel, Greek Lessons, suddenly and mysteriously loses the ...
The Guardian

Greek Lessons by Han Kang review – studies in silence and solitude

A woman who has lost the power of speech forms a connection with a language teacher who is losing his sight in the Korean author’s striking examination of selfhood One of the two central protagonists ...