The Chronicle of Higher Education

Lessons in Ancient Greek

When Harry Richter, age 8, was picking a second language to learn, he went for the obvious choice: ancient Greek. “It’s just the first thing that popped into my head,” says Harry, a second-grade ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

'Greek Lessons' is an intimate, vulnerable portrayal of two lonely people

Greek Lessons feels like a departure from Han Kang's other English-translated novels; tugging bit by bit at the heartstrings, readers are left... Few literary books this year are as highly anticipated ...
Forbes

The Greek Lesson: Never Underestimate The Ability Of Politicians To Screw Up

As we survey the bombed out rubble of the Greek economy this morning we should consider the major lesson of it to us all: We should never underestimate the ability of politicians to entirely screw up ...
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 ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

'Greek Lessons' is an intimate, vulnerable portrayal of two lonely people

Few literary books this year are as highly anticipated as Greek Lessons, the latest novel by Han Kang to be translated into English. After Kang's Booker Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian and the ...
Time

Greek Lessons

Han Kang, winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian, is known for her ability to lay bare the lives of complicated women. Her latest novel, Greek Lessons, first released in ...
East Asia Forum

Greek lessons for India

What is at the heart of the Greek crisis? What are the important lessons for India? Based on a fairly close reading of the international press, it has been surprisingly hard to answer the first of ...