A remarkable new collection of translated Chinese poetry and original essays by the translator.

On doing better and stressing less about the house with small, unambitious habits

Whose dereliction is it, pray / that mice run mad and wild?

This memoir of a middle-class family’s brush with unemployment was funny and vivid in parts, but ultimately unsatisfying.

Fact-checking the 2023 short story The Schwarzschild Defence because I am a killjoy.

Before Koreans knew smallpox as a virus, we knew her as a god.

It trails the wind, comes stealing in at night / Bedews all things with thin and soundless threads.

When on this ground we once do say farewell, / Alone, far-flung, we’ll tread a thousand miles.

Translation of a famous sijo from Chosun-era poet Hwang Jinyi

What is most meaningful to me about my writing habit is that the dream of writing this story is no longer a dream, but my waking reality.