남의 둥지, 낯선 알: what this book is like to read
Here are two sentences from 남의 둥지, 낯선 알. The first is from chapter one, the second from chapter twenty-three. 런던에서 일할 때는, 그림…
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What ¿mande? means, and what it doesn’t
¿Mande? means roughly could you repeat that? In Mexico it is a familiar way to ask someone to say something again, and also a…
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Korea’s most famous repatriation case, and how it actually ended
Our Korean novel, 남의 둥지, 낯선 알 (Namui Dungji, Natseon Al), turns on a painting that hangs in a museum in Paris with thirty-three…
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What your textbook does, and what a novel does
A textbook teaches you the language explicitly. A novel builds your ability to handle language in context by making you infer meaning as you…
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남의 둥지, 낯선 알 is out today
남의 둥지, 낯선 알 (Namui Dungji, Natseon Al) is out today, the first novel we have published in Korean. It opens 먼 제비 (Meon…
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La Mesa de Abajo: everybody signed, and nobody is responsible
La Mesa de Abajo is the kind of Mexico City restaurant where a table takes weeks to get and the chef can name the…
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Nobody teaches you to read a form
A few years ago a research team gave a group of people with no legal training a task: take a simple rule and write…
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Tudo que o rio sabe: he did everything right, then vanished
Davi Fontes inspected river water for the state of Pernambuco. He found something in the Capibaribe, and he did everything correctly: filed the reports,…
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Escala Técnica lands today
La Mesa de Abajo is out today — a novel in Spanish written for people who are learning the language, and the first of…
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Our first book is out today
Tudo que o rio sabe is the first book Omorphos Publishing has released, and the opening of Nordeste Agora, a five-book series in Brazilian…
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