This Valentine’s Day, are you head over heels in love, pining for someone, or do you just want to be left alone? Our personality quiz will match you with the Korean story or poem that best reflects your feelings this February. Take the quiz below or visit Jotform to get your K-lit recommendation.
In “The Marilyn Monroe of Santo Domingo,” Dominican performance poet Frank Báez creates an unforgettable trans character who is both highly specific and something of an everywoman. An ambulance driver and a poet, an object of admiration as well as abuse, alternately earthy and fanciful, “Marilyn Monroe” will stick in readers’ memories for a long time.
Author Abdulrazak Gurnah at a panel in Hebron. By PalFest, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
December 9th is Tanzanian Independence Day, which commemorates the end of British rule in 1961. To mark the occasion, we're revisiting this 2021 blog post on Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah. —Eds.