The local news leads off with murder and violent crime reports. The national news continually focuses on the negative impact ...

In 'We Do Not Part,' Han Kang explores a friendship that certainly spans distance, and perhaps planes of existence.

But what struck me most is just how incredibly sweet and ... to a world stuck in a politically bleak quagmire of doom-and-gloom despair. The plot is at pains to stitch up every relationship ...

Makeshift blindfolds, rusted manacles, and messages of despair scratched into the walls ... She describes the agony of not knowing, a pain compounded by fleeting moments of hope.

A 10-year journey that has so far left him in distress, despair and agony as he awaits an employment opportunity ... I have seen children transform from worse to the best and this gives me the hope to ...

Hope is the last resort to deal with a crisis situation and its end would mean gloom, despair and pessimism. When youth lose hope for a better future, the outcome is permeation of anger ...