Beth Nguyen on "Owner of a Lonely Heart" wortfm.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wortfm.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When the 1980-87 military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan controlled access to information by creating lists of banned books, blocking access to foreign news and persecuting suspected dissidents, Korea s universities were a nexus of subversive activities, from political demonstrations that often clashed violently with police, to secretive groups that shared and read forbidden literature. That situation is dramatized in Banned Book Club, a 198-page graphic novel by Kim Hyun-sook, Ko Hyung-ju and Ryan Estrada.
Roya Hakakian is an Iranian-American writer, journalist, and public speaker. Her opinion columns, essays, and book reviews appear in leading English language publications including <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The New York Review of Books</i> and <i>The Atlantic</i>. A founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, she has spoken on a variety of news outlets, from CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS to MSNBC, as well as in Washington D.C. for the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and the State Department with U.S. Secretary Antony Blinken. Her latest book <i>A Beginner’s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious </i>has been called a contemporary Tocquevlllian account by <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> and <i>The Boston Globe</i>. <br/>She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship among many other prizes and has been called one of “the most important activists, academics and jou
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Shop all the book winners of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2023 all in one place. We rounded up the trophy-bearers for each genre here, from fiction to poetry.