132 | March• 2018Books
Ask a
North Korean
Daniel Tudor
TUTTLE PUBLISHINGB
ack in 2011, the
American online
newspaper
NK.News.org was
launched. Its focus
was North Korean
culture, curiosities and opinion,
and it gathered material from a core group
of experts – North Korean defectors. Daniel
Tudor’s compilation continues this inquiry.
What he reveals is that, sure, the place has
a rigid and dangerously narrow political
view, but at the human level, life goes on. How to
Be Human
New Scientist
HACHETTEP
recisely what
makes us amazing
is detailed in this
entertaining tour of the
human body and mind,
presented as a series of
questions you might
hear a curious ten year
old ask, such as “Why
do we fight? Why do
we laugh?”
Does it hold all the
answers? No, and the
editors admit that they
haven’t set out to claim
they have, either. Among
our favourite quandaries
are the physical sting
of emotional pain and
the power of human
imagination. This book
answers the questions
science has been able
to sort out – all of
which help us better
understand ourselves.ii