What is the first thing that comes to mind when hearing the word mother? Unconditional love, sacrifice, and maternal instinct are some of the words we are conditioned to automatically think of. Kim Soom’s Women and Their Evolving Enemies takes a bold look at the inherent cruelty behind this...

Novelist Kim Soom, who won last year's Daesan Literary Award, as well as the 2012 Hyundae Literary Award, has released her fourth book, a short story collection titled, Noodles. The collection contains nine stories, including the title piece, “Noodles” and “One Evening with Kyung-sook,” which...

If sentences had ambition (which they certainly do), the prose in Kim Soom's Liver and Gallbladder would be given a perfect score of 10. Rhetorical flourishes are absent in Kim’s writing. Subject, verb, and object are the only elements to be found, and descriptive modifiers such as adjectives...

“These men, who had no choice but to become idiots, shaped me into a writer.