Hannah Bae

1 week ago | sfchronicle.com | Hannah Bae

By necessity and with a great deal of ingenuity, Koreans over time have mastered the art of turning found remnants into stunning works of art. One traditional art form, jogakbo, or patchwork sewing, features prominently in “The Wedding Banquet,” Korean American director Andrew Ahn’s hilarious remake of Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee’s groundbreaking 1993 queer romantic comedy by the same name. “The Wedding Banquet”: Romantic comedy.

2 weeks ago | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Hannah Bae

It’s hard to imagine better timing for the release of Vauhini Vara’s first book of nonfiction, “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age.”Recently, my Instagram feed has been filled with screenshots from many of the authors I follow, voicing outrage that Silicon Valley companies like Meta and OpenAI had used the pirated-books database Library Genesis, or LibGen, to access stolen copies of their work to train their AI models.

Jan 15, 2025 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Samantha Schoech |Hannah Bae

“My Mother’s Boyfriends: Stories” by Samantha Schoech. Photo: ? 7.13 BooksSamantha Schoech has an undeniable gift for ending stories. Her closing lines — sometimes referred to as a “button” in creative writing circles, or a “kicker” in journalism — are the kind that linger on a reader’s mind.

Jan 14, 2025 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Paige Morris |Hannah Bae |E. Yaewon

“We Do Not Part,” by Nobel Prize winner Han Kang. Photo: HogarthWhere does the line fall between the living and the dead? How do you know when you’re awake or dreaming? Whose presence is real, and whose is merely a figment of the imagination? These are the questions that acclaimed Korean author Han Kang, 2024’s winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, poses in astonishing prose in  “We Do Not Part,” her latest novel to be translated into English.

Nov 25, 2024 | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Anita Felicelli |Hannah Bae

Author Anita Felicelli sits for a portrait with her new book “We Know Our Time Travelers” at her home in Mountain View in November. Photo: Lea Suzuki/The ChronicleDisaster, in forms both natural and manmade, haunts the fiction of Anita Felicelli. Wildfire smoke chokes out moonlight. A tsunami threatens the drought-scorched West Coast. Nuclear fallout degrades San Francisco and Oakland’s Bay Bridge and the surrounding landscape.