The theme of _List Vol. 13 is “Risk Society and the Artistic Imagination.” This issue introduces six books and three films under the four subthemes—overview, intellectual response to risk (sociology), literary imagination about risk (literature), and risk and popular culture (films). In addition, this issue features interviews with novelists Kim Joo-young and Song Sokze, Korean publishing trends, coverage of the acceptance of Korean literature overseas, author’s notes by novelist Jung Young Moon, a spotlight on a literary site, book reviews of fiction/nonfiction/children’s literature, and an excerpt from Kim Won Il’s The House with the Sunken Courtyard and introduces steady sellers, publishers, and trends in Korean literature to overseas readers.