Editor’s Note: Read Paul Yoon’s new short story, “Person of Korea.” “Person of Korea” is a new short story by Paul Yoon. To mark the story’s publication in The Atlantic, Yoon and Oliver Munday, the design director of the magazine, discussed the story over email. Their conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.
Editor’s Note: Read an interview with Paul Yoon about his writing process. This story was published online on March 13, 2021.He waits three weeks for his father to respond. During that time, whenever he checks the mail, the dog follows him. She eyes the birds on the telephone wires. Then the migrant workers in the fields.One day, the payphone near the mailboxes rings. He hurries to the booth.
Illustration by Oliver Munday; Bernard Gotfryd / Hulton Archive; Bettman; Bob Peterson / The Life Images Collection / Getty
This article was published online on March 13, 2021.
I’m plagued with nausea, vomiting, and most of all regret.
Public defense might be one of the rare professions in which doing one’s job too well can lead to being fired. The reasons for this are structural—public defenders are tasked with an obligation they cannot fulfill without upsetting those tasked with helping them fulfill it—and the system can be fixed structurally: by creating a state-level office whose job it is to defend public defenders.
A Black Lives Matter sign on the lawn, and Blue Lives Matter marchers in the neighborhood.
The nation’s top infectious disease expert set “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert off laughing with his succinct answer.
The rich flee. The poor have nowhere to go. And there is important work to do in the aftermath.
It isn’t dystopian. It’s creative reuse.
He wouldn’t nuke it. But his ideas might help neutralize it.
This will appreciably improve the lives of Americans—and position the administration to do even more.
Businesses warn the policy could create confusion and bring hefty new costs for employers.
Few others cast as long a shadow as Fauci — who over the past year has given America a crash course in epidemiology — especially with top health posts vacant.
As part of an address to the nation, the president announced the directive with the goal of getting the U.S. closer to normal by July 4.
The lack of detail has prompted questions and skepticism about how many of these shots will reach their intended recipients.
I spend hours, days thinking about it.
If you think this aid is not “for you,” you’re wrong.
He is best known for his work on a Stockton pilot project that provided $500 a month to a small group of low-income residents.
Another massive injection of federal cash could ignite the economy like never before. It also could drive up inflation and burst market bubbles, creating new headaches in an otherwise positive outlook.
The February gain marked a sharp pickup from the 166,000 jobs that were added in January.
“I mean, Shaq has a SPAC. What could go wrong?” one economist says of the euphoria rippling through Wall Street and raising a new round of worries.
Only businesses with fewer than 20 employees will be able to apply for aid through the massive Paycheck Protection Program.
Today marked the first day in an America where the American Rescue Plan is officially law. It was such a tough pill to swallow for the policy-less conservative movement that Fox News reached a new existential low as they tried to spin away from the hopeful news the Biden administration offered Americans last night.
Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick announced Friday that she would not seek reelection in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, a once swingy Tucson-area seat that has trended hard to the left over the last few years but could look quite different next year.
Kirkpatrick is the first House member from either party to announce her retirement for this cycle; Texas Democratic Rep.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was slightly less bombastic than the last time he testified in front of a House oversight committee, when he declared he was going to be in this job for “a long time. Get used to me.” He was marginally less obnoxious on Thursday, when he testified before the House Appropriations subcommittee on financial service. He even attempted contrition, sort of.
Michigan Democratic Rep. Brenda Lawrence, a former U.S.
Efforts to vaccinate California’s farmworkers against COVID-19 continue to expand in the state, Border Report said. In San Diego County, strawberry field laborers were the first farmworkers in the region to get their first dose, thanks to mobile clinics that are going to straight to workers. It’s an effort being seen in agricultural areas all over the state.
“Your hood is showing,” a Twitter user responded to the Wisconsin Republican’s statement.
An entire girls basketball team decided to kneel during the national anthem of the Oklahoma 6A state basketball tournament Thursday night.
