The Nobel laureate’s new novel “We Do Not Part” grapples with an atrocity and the difficulties of bearing witness. A woman is walking along a cold seaside plain lined with thousands of black tree ...

Han Kang's new book "We Do Not Part" is out now. (Author photo courtesy Paik Duhim; book cover courtesy Penguin Random House/Hogarth) Last year, novelist Han Kang became the first Korean writer to be ...

Han Kang is a private person. When she won last year’s Nobel Prize for literature, it was widely reported in the South Korean press that she was married to the literary critic Hong Yong-hee. They have ...

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Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” starts with a plea: Filmmaker Inseon, who is recovering from an accident in Seoul, asks her friend Kyungha to travel to her home on the ...

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. Internationally famous authors need no pity, but the status comes with vulnerabilities. Having been turned into global ambassadors for ...

The Nobel laureate’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” revisits a violent chapter in South Korean history. By Lydia Millet Lydia Millet is the author, most recently, of the novel “Dinosaurs” and the memoir ...

In a 2024 speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature, South Korean author Han Kang confessed that “I had long lost a sense of deep-rooted trust in humans.” She wondered: “How then could I embrace ...

In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “We Do Not Part,” the Nobel laureate Han Kang’s novel about history, tragedy and the work of remembering. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an ...