Colin Marshall sits down in Los Angeles’ Koreatown with filmmaker Rob Montz, director of Juche Strong, a short documentary about North Korea and its propaganda. They discuss reaching the same age as Kim Jong-un without a hermit kingdom to rule; the question of why North Koreans continue to believe in their state, despite having good [...]
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- ABC of Men's Fashion by Hardy Amies
- Chris Marker, Sans Soleil, and Japan
- Essays excerpted from A Los Angeles Primer
- Four books about Vancouver
- Four Western literary expats in postwar Japan
- Icons of Men's Style by Josh Sims
- Isle of Dreams by Keizo Hino and The Paradise Bird Tattoo by Choukitsu Kurumatani
- Off the Cuff by Carson Kressley
- Peter Hessler, the New Yorker's essayist of place in China, Colorado, and Cairo
- Take Ivy by Teruyoshi Hayashida, et al.
- The films of Hong Sangsoo
- The Measure of a Man by JJ Lee
- The Suit by Nicholas Antongiavanni
- Three novels by Kim Young-ha
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- A Los Angeles Primer: Grand Central Market
- Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E14: The Good, the Bread, and the Ugly with Sandra Høj
- A Los Angeles Primer: Westwood
- Men’s style books: Kevin Burrows and Lawrence Schlossman, Fuck Yeah Menswear
- Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E13: Homo Jovialis with Lars AP
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