Standing in Another Man’s GraveBy Ian Rankin (Little, Brown)Welcome back to the Lothian & Borders Police force, John Rebus.On second thought, hold on a moment. You’re actually not so welcome back after all, you crusty, IPA-quaffing, single malt-drinking, doggedly old-school investigative iconoclast. At least not to your Scottish colleagues in the Edinburgh cop shop, who don’t approve of your rule-breaking, not-familiar-with-the-Internet, consorting-with-known-criminals ways.Those bureaucratic ty

The starting point for Marisa Silver’s new novel, “Mary Coin,” was a moment of genius that unfolded on a California roadside more than 70 years ago.Just outside the coastal valley town of Nipomo in 1936, photographer Dorothea Lange spotted a migrant farmworker family sitting in a tent off U.S. Highway 101. After a few minutes of conversation, Lange snapped six shots of a mother and her children. The sixth became the defining American photograph of the Great Depression.Silver, a writer with a sha

18-year-old to perform with Lorin Maazel in Seoul next month

Internationally acclaimed novelist Shin Kyung-sook releases her first collection of short stories

A former South Korean ambassador to Vietnam was appointed the new head of the Global Compact Korea Network, the foreign ministry said. Global Compact Korea Network is the local association of businesses that have joined a U.N. initiative to promote sustainable and socially responsible management. Im Hong-jae, a 63-year-old career diplomat who served as ambassador to Hanoi from 2007 to 2010, was elected secretary-general of Global Compact Korea Network in its general session on March 6. Im succee

Former foreign minister Kim Sung-hwan will take to the lecture podium at Seoul National University. The Graduate School of International Studies of the university said Thursday that it decided to appoint Kim as a two-year chair professor on Monday.Kim also will act as the first head of a global social contribution corps of the university, launched in February this year.The corps will integrate and coordinate on-campus contribution activities, educate in contribution activities at home and abroad

The Corea Image Communication Institute and Cs jointly launched a new group aimed at promoting awareness of Korean culture among foreign visitors at the Grand Hyatt Seoul yesterday. CICI is a nonprofit organization that strives to promote and advance the global image of Korea, while Cs is a consulting company for the nation’s hospitality industry.The 5.4 Club co-presidents Choi Jung-wha, president of CICI, and Didier Beltoise, president and CEO of Cs, established the club in order to promote and

A recent study claimed that women marrying later in their life were likely to reap financial benefits, while the same was not true for men. The University of Virginia published a report claiming that women who wed in their early 30s earned an average of 56 percent more than those who got married a decade earlier. It also showed that men had higher income when they got married in their 20s, suggesting that getting married earlier in life is beneficial for men on average. Childbirth turned out to

U.S. children ages 2-4 who drank skim milk or 1 percent milk had higher body mass index than those drinking whole milk, researchers say. Rebecca Scharf and Mark DeBoer, both of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and Ryan Demmer of Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University said the study involved 10,700 pre-school children. At age 2 the children body mass index was calculated and parents were asked what type of milk they gave their children. The children, a representative

Seoul’s fashionistas will get a preview of what’s hot and in for the fall/winter season next week when the 2013 F/W Seoul Fashion Week kicks off on March 25.Some 75 shows will be presented by both established and up-and-coming designers during the week-long celebration of fashion.Some of the leading designers participating include Lie Sang Bong, Gee Chun-hee, Chang Kwang-hyo and Song Zio, while 12 young designers will present their innovative designs and creativity at the “Generation Next” shows

“Baa, baa” is not a sound usually heard in cafés. But at Thanks Nature Café situated in the middle of Hongdae, home to two incredibly cute sheep, Nana and Berry, the sound of sheep is an essential element of the experience. Unlike cat and dog cafés where animals wander freely around the eating area, the cafe separates itself from the outside patio where the two snowy white farm animals occupy a space fully dedicated to their well-being. After spending the past 20 years in the commercial business

The newly appointed chief of the state heritage agency on Wednesday said she is ready to protect a set of endangered petroglyphs in the outskirts of Ulsan, North Gyeongsang Province, which has been her lifelong project. “The Bangudae Petroglyphs, part of the Daegokcheon Stream Petroglyphs, are the beginning of all Korean arts, and therefore, one of the most urgent items that we must preserve,” said Byun Young-sup, administrator of the Cultural Heritage Administration, who took office on Monday.

A blue-collar worker who made headlines last month by donating 100 million won he saved up from more than two decades of working revealed Tuesday that the money was not his, but money his son had acquired illegitimately. The donation was also made to get an appeals court to commute a sentence on his son. A local newspaper in Ulsan published an apology by Park Woo-hyun and Park Ki-yeon, on March 19.  Park Woo-hyun, an 57-year-old worker at Hyundai Heavy Industries, received attention when he gave

A crew of two women on Wednesday flew a C-130 cargo aircraft together for the first time in their careers, cracking the glass ceiling in the male-dominated Air Force.Capt. Lee Na-kyum and Capt. Oh Hyun-jin of the fifth tactical airlift wing based in Gimhae, 449 kilometers southeast of Seoul, successfully completed their flight mission, marking the first time an all-female crew has flown the military aircraft since female cadets were accepted into the academy in 1997. Lee, 31, had flown the C-130