When the Korean-American novelist Chang-rae Lee was a child, he was particularly interested in the works of Sigmund Freud. As he told the Times recently, he read Freud’s case studies eagerly, ...

The question nagged at me the entire time I was reading Chang-rae Lee's fourth novel, "The Surrendered": What is this book about? After nearly 500 pages, the best I can offer are glimpses of plot. I ...

The science fiction writer Chloe Gong recommends new and classic books that push the boundaries of the genre, with plenty of techno thrills. By Chloe Gong “My Year Abroad” follows a young man from a ...

Acclaimed novelist Lee shares meticulous writing approach in classroom. Princeton Professor Chang-rae Lee -- regarded as one of the most talented novelists of his generation -- painstakingly composes ...

The most striking dystopian novels sound an alarm, focus our attention and even change the language. "The Handmaid's Tale" crystallized our fears about reproductive control; "Fahrenheit 451" still ...

I’ve never been a fan of grand hyperbolic declarations in book reviews, but faced with “On Such a Full Sea,” I have no choice but to ask: Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee today? His new, ...

In all fairness, this was the message that leading health professionals in the U.S. were telegraphing at the time, but what always struck me about that message was its deeper implication, namely that ...

War is, for obvious reasons, a topic occupying many creative minds these days, Chang-rae Lee among them. But in his latest novel, “The Surrendered,” out now from Riverhead Books, it was the aftermath ...