Richard M. Cho is a research librarian for Humanities and Literature at University of California, Irvine. His writing has been published in Tint Journal, Asymptote, LA Review of Books, and more. He is the founder of the book and movie review website, www.jjjreview.com.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Tapestry of Voices: On Tash Aw’s Novels
Richard M. Cho considers the novels of Malaysian writer Tash Aw....
A Sane Man in a Demented Age: On Julian Barnes’s “The Man in the Red Coat”
Richard M. Cho appreciates "The Man in the Red Coat," the new biography of Samuel Jean Pozzi by Julian Barnes....
To Hell and Back: Modernized Myth in Hwang Sok-yong’s “Princess Bari”
Richard M. Cho explores the modernized Korean myth at the heart of Hwang Sok-yong’s “compelling and heartrending” novel “Princess Bari.”...
Fire, Books, and Memories: On Susan Orlean’s “The Library Book”
What can the 1986 LAPL fire tell us about today's library?...
