When Harry Richter, age 8, was picking a second language to learn, he went for the obvious choice: ancient Greek. “It’s just the first thing that popped into my head,” says Harry, a second ...

Find out why "Greek Lessons" by Han Kang is on TIME's list of the must-read books of the year. Here's why it made the list.

Greek Lessons feels like a departure from Han Kang's other English-translated novels; tugging bit by bit at the heartstrings, readers are left speechless with both sadness and hope by the final pages.

Two of the most famous works of Greek literature, “The Odyssey” and the “Oresteia,” are stories of seemingly eternal divisions that end with opposing factions coming together. In the anxiety of the ...

Greek Lessons feels like a departure from Han Kang's other English-translated novels; tugging bit by bit at the heartstrings, readers are left ...

Greek Lessons Han Kang, trans. from the Korean by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won. Hogarth, $26 (192p) ISBN 978-0-593-59527-5 ...