American Enterprise Institute

Greek Lessons for the IMF

With Greece now well on its way to exiting the euro, it is not too early to draw lessons for the International Monetary Fun (IMF) from its unfortunate Greek lending program. Since never before has the ...
The Daily Star

Of losses and languages: reviewing Han Kang’s 'Greek Lessons'

During a poetry workshop last year, I was trying to write a clean poem, bereft of any blubber. The discussion steered along the lines of the Imagist movement: "Write in distilled images and let go of ...
The Irish Times

Greek Lessons by Han Kang: a writer in transition

It is a quirk of fiction in translation that a writer’s novels often appear in English in a different order to their original publication. In Korean, Greek Lessons was the follow-up to The Vegetarian ...
The Financial Times

Greek Lessons by Han Kang — lost for words

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the unnamed protagonist of Han Kang’s latest novel, Greek Lessons, suddenly and mysteriously loses the ...