Thinking back on the books I had read during 2024 I was struck by patterns I hadn’t noticed at the time I read them. I found books talking to each other, whether their authors intended it, or not.

Indonesian artist Maryanto doesn’t march in the streets or shout through a megaphone. Instead, he carves, etches and paints, ...

And in 1980, after university students demonstrating against martial law were beaten and killed by soldiers ordered by Chun Doo-hwan’s dictatorship ... to parents, to children, to grandchildren.

Children, people with disabilities ... without warrants was ramped up under the military rule of President Chun Doo-hwan, who oversaw South Korea’s preparation to host the 1986 Asian Games ...

While SKY Castle is fictional, it hit a raw nerve with Koreans not just because of its focus on education, but because it depicted how brutal it is for the children to be forced to get the grades ...

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From Parasite becoming the first non-English-language movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture to filmmakers like Park ...