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“Once weekly fare, I now have cholent only a few times a year; I, too, am no longer observant. I don’t think this is a coincidence. Which is to say that, while I stand by the choices I’ve made and the life I am choosing to live—different from how I was raised, but no less […]
“Christina Kim risked everything to escape North Korea’s entrenched gender violence. She almost didn’t make it.”
Crows become familiars for a writer living on the surface of a changing city.
“What was the whole point of your training if you cannot do something, even in a pandemic?”
When a native of North Korea returns to the country with her daughter, it is not a homecoming. It is also proof that narrative is a human construct we impose on a disorderly reality.
Or, the newsletter in which I conclude that time is a flat circle.
It was Russia, in the cybertubes, using stolen passwords, a secret backdoor, and layers upon layers of false flag cloak work meant to stump security analysts.
Otto Warmbier got arrested in North Korea, sentenced to hard labor, and was eventually sent back to the U.S. — comatose. As with many things North Korean, the why and how is speculative at best.
A writer examines his own depression and suicidal ideation after losing an enigmatic friend and a deeply personal book draft.
