Four new books explore Korea's cold war hangover and the indelible mark
left by its North-South division.
Is the coziness of progressives and foreign policy realists a strategic alliance or a sign that the conservative co-optation of "human rights" has disillusioned the left?
In the prevailing American stereotype, North Korea is a failing Stalinist dictatorship held together only by the ruthless repression of a mad ruler who dreams of firing nuclear weapons at Los Ang
The highbrow literary magazine has re-emerged as a combative political actor.


