Heinz Insu Fenkl, the translator of this week’s story, “An Anonymous Island,” by the Korean writer Yi Mun-yol, talks to Cressida Leyshon, a fiction editor at the magazine. As a translator, I’ve had to ...

It’s safe to say that the influence novelist Yi Mun-yol has had on Korean literature could not be more far-reaching. The writer joins the ranks of the few novelists who have had many of their works ...

This week’s issue features Yi Mun-yol’s first short story in The New Yorker, “An Anonymous Island.” The story describes the arrival of an elementary school teacher in a remote village and her ...

This deceptively innocent tale of psychological warfare between two elementary school students is the brief but forceful U.S. debut of Korea's most popular fiction writer. When 12-year-old Han ...