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“Tajikistan, Tajikistan, I’ll never forget this land, and the men left behind to die on the rocks.”An excerpt from a Russian war song, this stanza encompasses the blood spilt in the creation of the eponymous nation in a tragic, yet poetic way. Paul Bergne’s The Birth of Tajikistan: National Identity
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Goh Jinoo
2021.10.03 20:16
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“People aren’t the apex species they think they are. Other creatures – bigger, smaller, slower, faster, older, younger, more powerful – call the shots, make the air, and eat sunlight. Without them, nothing.” As this quote suggests, have you ever thought in a perspective that is not that human? Or ha
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Oh Ji Su
2021.09.02 00:10
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Do you ever feel lost within your limitations? The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself (hereinafter "Untethered Soul") by Michael Alan Singer guides the reader into finding inner peace and freedom. It is not a book that is read once and forgotten; rather, it is a book that will teach life-l
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Kim Sur Hyun
2021.06.02 09:31
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The Roman Empire has long held a special spot in the minds of historians, with many having been fascinated with its two-millennia-long story and legacy. Thus, Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, hereafter referred to as The History, may seem like just another tex
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Goh Jinoo
2021.05.01 14:33
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“I do not remember my name.” The book Forget My Name starts with this sentence. A person’s name plays a significant role in their life. Therefore, forgetting one’s own name is the same as losing a significant page of one’s life. Forget My Name tells the story of an amnesiac who cannot recall any inf
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Park Sumin
2021.04.02 16:56
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“What does Solaris want from us?”“Why do you think it has to want something?”An excerpt from the 2002 film remake of Stanisław Lem’s original novel Solaris, this short dialogue between scientists Kris Kelvin and Gibrarian represents the book’s plot quite poetically. Presenting a constant battle betw
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Goh Jinoo
2021.03.01 16:44
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Kareiski is a term in Russian that refers to the Koreans who were deported in the early 1900s from the Soviet Union. Koreans had lived in the Maritime Province, which is adjacent to the Korean border, from long ago to cultivate crops. In 1937, the Soviet Union government decided to use the Maritime
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Kang Min Seo
2020.12.08 11:26
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It is said that poets’ sensitivity to their surroundings is heightened beyond average. With it, poets perceive and interpret the world unlike others can. This certain quality seemed to be especially prominent in the poet Sylvia Plath; her choices in topic, material, and writing style all serve to co
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Kie Hae Seung
2020.10.30 18:49
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2020 marks 75 years since the end of World War II, which saw one of the largest genocides in human history. As Viktor Frankl explains in his book Man’s Search for Meaning, the Jewish people of Europe were “stripped bare naked” of their possessions, careers, reputations, and human dignity. In history
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Joo Hannah
2020.10.04 16:09
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“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze,” says the protagonist Offred as she describes her restricted freedom inside the maze. Indeed, throughout Margaret Atwood's literary work The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), the questions of independence and unequal power structure
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Kweon Seoyoung
2020.08.27 18:47
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“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (2003) follows the journey of Christopher Boone as he tries to find order and stability in a worl
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Nam Eun Seo
2020.05.17 18:03
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“Each and everyone realize a dramatic physical law when it becomes a collective even if each lives in obscurity…like atoms.” A representative Japanese detective novel writer Higashino Keigo, conveys a gentle impression and moral lesson through his novel *Laplace’s Witch*, unlike other detective stor
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Kweon Seoyoung
2020.04.02 22:01
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“I’ve had it. I am going to be furiously happy, out of sheer spite.” This determined promise following a particularly serious depressive episode sums up Jenny Lawson’s book Furiously Happy. Lawson follows through with this declaration and takes readers along for a ride with her experience of ups and
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Kie Hae Seung
2020.03.11 17:03
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Nowadays, there are a lot of best-selling self-improvement books that give advice on how to develop oneself and achieve one’s goal. They concentrate on the act of reaching the target, deeming those dr
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Jeong Yeon Soo
2019.12.06 22:52
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“Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn’t.” A Man Called Ove (2013) follows Ove as he heals from the pains of his wif
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Kim Sun Min
2019.10.30 14:35
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Leav, both a novelist and a poet, was born in a refugee camp in Thailand whilst fleeing from difficult times during the Khmer Rouge regime when a mass genocide was carried out in Cambodia. She did, ho
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Kim Sun Min
2019.10.08 09:39
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“I’ve always believed happiness is just around the corner. The trick is finding the right corner,” says Eric Weiner in his New York Times bestselling travel memoir, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump'
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Kim Sun Min
2019.09.27 02:21
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For many years, under an almost global system of patriarchal power, women were not acknowledged as full citizens. They were deprived of suffrage, often silenced, and erased from history. Although wome
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Jeong Yeon Soo
2019.06.07 02:10
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"The morning was fresh from the rain. The smell of the tide pools was strong. Sweet odors came from the wild grasses in the ravines and from the sand plants on the dunes.” The Island (1988) by Gary P
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Kim Sung Kyung
2019.05.13 11:29
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"If we ever do get married, I’d like to take your name,” Ken tells his girlfriend, alluding to the dead-end fate of his family. The Tattoo (2004) shows the dynamics of Ken’s life as a man of Japanese
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Kim Seung Hye
2019.05.03 16:12