E. Tammy Kim

Big Stories, Little Stories

“One thing I almost always do, across genres and subjects, is go places and call people.”

A Permanent Battle

A new history draws on recently declassified archives to illustrate how the Korean War was an intimate civil conflict, not just a proxy battle between superpowers.

Exit Polls in Seoul

Rising panic over housing costs and a misogynist backlash culminated in the election of a new strongman president in South Korea.

Return Flights

Two hundred thousand South Korean children have been adopted since the Korean War. Adoptee memoirs, once full of confession and confusion, are now marked by confidence and rage.

Korea’s Tireless Patriot and Revolutionary

Korea’s radical history, told through the eyes of the colonial-era activist and organizer Kim San.

Moms 4 Housing: A Dramatic Eviction Revisited

Taken as a whole, the emails released by Alameda County reveal a struggle to coordinate a response to mass protest—in the context of an otherwise ordinary eviction.

Pandemic Journal, March 23–29

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Michael Greenberg in Brooklyn, Raquel Salas Rivera in San Juan, Aida Alami in Paris, Rahmane Idrissa in Niamey, and more.

Moms 4 Housing & the Right to a Home

In Oakland, a coordinated, grassroots response to the housing emergency is revealing new potential for inspiring change.

Trump’s Other Family Separation Policy

This week, on August 14, a federal appeals court will hear oral argument from attorneys for the Department of Homeland Security, on the one hand, and Temporary Protected Status holders, on the other, as to whether the terminations should occur as originally scheduled. For Maribel Hernández Rivera, the litigation is personal.

Do Corporations Need Public Assistance?

More transparency from the outset would enable citizens to test the strength of economic-impact analyses, examine a company’s track record, and query elected officials about future impacts on land, water, housing costs, and social services. This opportunity is what the opponents of Amazon HQ2, in New York, were refused.

#KoreaToo

A short novel not primarily focused on sexual violence has become a cultural touchstone for Korea’s version of the Me Too movement.

The Striking Demands of LA Teachers

The United Teachers Los Angeles union’s demand for more school counselors, in particular, emerged more strongly than in other recent teacher strikes—because, striking teachers said, of the increasingly acute needs of the majority brown and working-class student population in LA’s public schools.

Moon Over Korea