Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much..

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth..

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw..

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary….

Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough,….

I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to sp….

Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything.

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range.

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is tru….