What goes: A short story
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It’s when he looks at me with pity that I want to jump out of my skin, and when he lowers his prematurely graying head, I turn my back.
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The nightmare of corporeality in Andrzej Żuławski’s ‘Possession’: A personal essay
Perhaps because the film is itself a chimera of genres (blending elements of noir, psychological thriller and drama), I was able to withstand its components of body horror. Mesmerized, I watched Anna’s famed subway meltdown.
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‘But we are still alive’: On refugee depictions in ‘Transit’ and ‘Exit West’
The consul banged the table and said, “If you’ve got no passport you’re officially dead” But we are still alive, my dear, but we are still alive Went to a committee; they offered me a chair; Asked me politely to return next year: But where shall we go today,
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Why the Burning Sun nightclub scandal is about more than just K-pop
In January 2019, Burning Sun — a popular nightclub in Seoul, South Korea — gained international media attention after a man’s claims
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Poetry speaks memory: 3 Korean poets on the art of remembering
Poetry can expose this established order, show us other possibilities and remember the dead, silenced and vulnerable. Poets often act as the nerves of a nation, composing the conscience of a country. The work of these three poets confronts the legacy of violence and asks the reader to remember with them.
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Home in the liminal: A personal essay
What’s a home? It could be the roof, the walls, the bed. It could be a city you say you know like the back of your hand. But you could feel loneliest in the city you inhabit, prone to dissolve in a sea of unknown faces.
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