Fenton J. A. Hort: …essay on philosophical theology, The Way, The Truth, and The Life (1893), dealing with the coexistence of an open, critical mind with acceptance of biblical truths.

Steve Carell: Despicable Me, Minions, and Foxcatcher: …figure in the coming-of-age tale The Way Way Back. That year he also reprised the role of Brick Tamland in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.

wayang, (Javanese: “shadow”), classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets manipulated by rods against a translucent screen lit from behind. Developed before the 10th century, the form had origins in the thalubomalata, the leather puppets of southern India. The art of

Richard Teschner: …the artistic potentialities of the Javanese rod puppet for western puppet theatre.

South Asian arts: Folk theatre: They are similar to the wayang kulit puppets of Indonesia but are much smaller and quicker-moving.

wayang: …figures manipulated by rods; the wayang wong, a pantomime by live actors; and the wayang Krunchil, wooden puppets in low relief.

In Living Color: …writer, producer, actor, and director Keenen Ivory Wayans, the series gave voice to the African American experience in a way that was absent in other sketch comedy shows. The show addressed race relations, cultural stereotypes, politics, and pop culture from an African American point of view and featured a predominantly…

Waycross, city, seat (1872) of Ware county, southeastern Georgia, U.S., on the coastal plain, about 50 miles (80 km) west of Brunswick. Early settlers had built blockhouses in the area by the 1820s as a protection against Native Americans. Originally the hub of stagecoach and pioneer trails,

Leviticus, third book of the Hebrew Bible. Its name indicates its contents as a manual primarily concerned with priests, members of the priestly tribe of Levi, and their duties. Although Leviticus is basically a book of laws, it also contains some narrative text (chapters 8–9, 10:1–7, 10:16–20, and

Wayland the Smith, in Scandinavian, German, and Anglo-Saxon legend, a smith of outstanding skill. He was, according to some legends, a lord of the elves. His story is told in the Völundarkvida, one of the poems in the 13th-century Icelandic Elder, or Poetic, Edda, and, with variations, in the

Wayland the Smith: …Horse Hill, Berkshire, known as Wayland’s Smithy. A local legend says the chamber is haunted by an invisible smith who will shoe a horse for a traveler, provided that a coin is left on a stone and that the traveler absents himself while the work is in progress. If he…

Martha Jefferson was the wife of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States (1801–09). She was never a first lady because she died 19 years before her husband became president. Martha Wayles married Bathurst Skelton in 1766, but he died two years later. The young widow returned to her

pre-Columbian civilizations: The beginnings of external expansion: …mother, Mama Mikay, was a Huayllaca (Wayllaqa) woman who had been promised to the leader of another group called the Ayarmaca (’Ayarmaka). When the promise was broken and Mama Mikay married Inca Roca, the Ayarmaca went to war with the Huayllaca and were defeating them. As a peace offering, the…

Nina Simone was an American singer who created urgent emotional intensity by singing songs of love, protest, and Black empowerment in a dramatic style, with a rough-edged voice. A precocious child, Simone played piano and organ in girlhood. She became sensitive to racism when at age 12 she gave a

pre-Columbian civilizations: Huayna Capac: Topa Inca Yupanqui’s unexpected death in about 1493 precipitated a struggle for the succession. It appears that Topa Inca Yupanqui had originally favored the succession of Huayna Capac (Wayna Qhapaq), the youngest son of his principal wife and sister. Shortly before his death,…

Wayne, township (town), Passaic county, northern New Jersey, U.S., 6 miles (10 km) west of Paterson, New Jersey. The site, first settled in 1695, was originally part of New Barbadoes township in Essex county, which was later incorporated into Bergen county. During the American Revolution the

Wayne, county, north-central New York state, U.S. It comprises a lowland region bordered by Lake Ontario to the north and intersected by the New York State Canal System (completed 1918), which incorporates the Erie Canal (1825). There are large marshes in the southeastern part of the county. Other

Wayne, county, extreme northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., bounded to the northeast and north by New York state (the West Branch Delaware and Delaware rivers constituting the boundary), to the southeast by Lake Wallenpaupack and Wallenpaupack Creek, and to the southwest by the Lehigh River. It

British Invasion: …Dreamers (“I’m Telling You Now”), Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders (“Game of Love”), Herman’s Hermits (“Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter”), the Rolling Stones (“[I Can’t Get No] Satisfaction” and others), the Troggs (“Wild Thing”), and Donovan (“Sunshine Superman”) all topped

Wayne State University, public coeducational institution of higher learning in Detroit, Mich., U.S. It is a comprehensive research university, comprising colleges of education; engineering; fine, performing, and communication arts; liberal arts and sciences; nursing; and pharmacy and health

Wayne State University, public coeducational institution of higher learning in Detroit, Mich., U.S. It is a comprehensive research university, comprising colleges of education; engineering; fine, performing, and communication arts; liberal arts and sciences; nursing; and pharmacy and health

Alice Cooper: …as himself in the movies Wayne’s World (1992) and Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows (2012). Cooper portrayed the title character’s father in Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991). His television credits included guest roles on such programs as That ’70s Show. In 2018 he played King Herod in the TV movie…

James Hong: Career: …played another comedic role in Wayne’s World 2 (1993), as an overprotective father who challenges his daughter’s boyfriend to a martial arts battle. In 1998 Hong lent his voice to Chi-Fu, adviser to the emperor of China, in Disney’s animated musical Mulan, and from 2002 to 2004 he voiced the…

Anthony Wayne was a prominent American general during the Revolutionary War, who later destroyed the Northwest Indian Confederation at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in Ohio (August 20, 1794). The owner of a tannery and extensive property in Pennsylvania, Wayne was commissioned a colonel in the

James M. Wayne was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1835–67). Wayne was admitted to the bar in 1810 and started to practice in Savannah. After the War of 1812 he was elected to the legislature for his opposition to an act suspending the collection of debts; he then served as

James M. Wayne was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1835–67). Wayne was admitted to the bar in 1810 and started to practice in Savannah. After the War of 1812 he was elected to the legislature for his opposition to an act suspending the collection of debts; he then served as

John Wayne was a major American motion-picture actor who embodied the image of the strong, taciturn cowboy or soldier and who in many ways personified the idealized American values of his era. Marion Morrison was the son of an Iowa pharmacist; he acquired the nickname “Duke” during his youth and

Anthony Wayne was a prominent American general during the Revolutionary War, who later destroyed the Northwest Indian Confederation at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in Ohio (August 20, 1794). The owner of a tannery and extensive property in Pennsylvania, Wayne was commissioned a colonel in the

Waynesboro, city, administratively independent of, but located in, Augusta county, north-central Virginia, U.S. It lies in the Shenandoah Valley along the South River, near the junction of Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway, 28 miles (45 km) west of Charlottesville. The original settlement of

William of Waynflete was an English lord chancellor and bishop of Winchester who founded Magdalen College of the University of Oxford. Little is known of his early years, but he evidently earned a reputation as a scholar before becoming master of Winchester College in 1429. He became a fellow at

huayño, couple dance of the Quechua and Aymara Indians and of many mestizos (people of Spanish-Indian descent) of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. It antedates the Spanish conquest and was possibly an Inca funeral dance; today it is purely festive. A circle of dancing couples surrounds the musicians,

ship construction: Launching: Standing structures called ways, constructed of concrete and wooden blocks, spaced about one-third of the vessel’s beam apart, support the ship under construction. The slope of the standing ways—which are often cambered (slightly curved upward toward the middle or slightly curved downward toward the ends) in the fore…

Xenophon: Other writings: Also Athenocentric is Ways and Means, a plan to alleviate the city’s financial problems (and remove excuses for aggressive imperialism) by paying citizens a dole from taxes on foreign residents and from the profits generated by using state-owned slaves in the silver mines.

government budget: The United States: …under the jurisdiction of the Ways and Means Committee of the House and are considered separately and possibly even at a different time from appropriations. The upper house of Congress, the Senate, plays a secondary role with respect to the budget. Its Appropriations Committee acts as a kind of court…

map: The Middle Ages: Ibn Haukal wrote a Book of Ways and Provinces illustrated with maps, and al-Idrīsī constructed a world map in 1154 for the Christian king Roger of Sicily, showing better information on Asian areas than had been available theretofore. In Baghdad astronomers used the compass long before Europeans, studied the…

Hermann Oberth: Oberth’s Wege zur Raumschiffahrt (1929; Ways to Spaceflight) won the first annual Robert Esnault-Pelterie–André Hirsch Prize of 10,000 francs, enabling him to finance his research on liquid-propellant rocket motors. The book anticipated by 30 years the development of electric propulsion and of the ion rocket. In 1931 Oberth received a…

bridge: Early bridges: …Hennebique and the German engineer G.A. Wayss, who bought the Monier patents. Hennebique’s Vienne River Bridge at Châtellerault, France, built in 1899, was the longest-spanning reinforced arch bridge of the 19th century. Built low to the river—typical of many reinforced-concrete bridges whose goal of safe passage across a small river…

Cameroon: Plant and animal life: Waza National Park in the north, which was originally created for the protection of elephants, giraffes, and antelope, abounds in both forest and savanna animals, including monkeys, baboons, lions, leopards, and birds that range from white and gray pelicans to spotted waders. To the south…

Osage, North American Indian tribe of the Dhegiha branch of the Siouan linguistic stock. The name Osage is an English rendering of the French phonetic version of the name the French understood to be that of the entire tribe. It was thereafter applied to all members of the tribe. The name Wa-zha-zhe

Haya, East African people who speak a Bantu language (also called Haya) and inhabit the northwestern corner of Tanzania between the Kagera River and Lake Victoria. Two main ethnic elements exist in the population—the pastoral Hima, who are probably descendants of wandering Nilotes, and the more

vizier, originally the chief minister or representative of the ʿAbbāsid caliphs and later a high administrative officer in various Muslim countries, among Arabs, Persians, Turks, Mongols, and other eastern peoples. The office took shape during its tenure by the Barmakid (Barmecide) family in the

Khalīl Ibrāhīm al-Wazīr was a Palestinian leader who became the military strategist and second in command of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Wazīr fled from Ramla with his family during the 1948 war that followed the creation of the State of Israel. He grew up in the Gaza Strip, where

Wazīrābād, town, northern Punjab province, Pakistan, just east of the Chenāb River. It is an important rail junction, with the Siālkot and Faisalābād (formerly Lyallpur) lines of the Pakistan Western Railway branching off and crossing the Chenāb River at the Alexandra Bridge. Industries include

Waziristan, geographic region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. It is a barren, mountainous country occupied by part of the Sulaiman Range and bounded north by the Kurram River, south by the Gumal River, and west by Afghanistan. The region’s rivers, which flow toward the Indus River,

Adam Ważyk was a Polish poet and novelist who began his career as a propagandist for Stalinism but ended as one of its opponents. Ważyk’s earliest volumes of poetry, Semafory (1924; “Semaphores”) and Oczy i usta (1926; “Eyes and Lips”), were written between the ages of 17 and 20 and reflect the

weber, unit of magnetic flux in the International System of Units (SI), defined as the amount of flux that, linking an electrical circuit of one turn (one loop of wire), produces in it an electromotive force of one volt as the flux is reduced to zero at a uniform rate in one second. It was named in

boxing: Professional organizations: …two organizations were established: the National Boxing Association, a private body, and the New York State Athletic Commission, a state agency. Divided control led to competing organizations’ sometimes recognizing different boxers as world champions at the same time. In Europe the ruling body was the International Boxing Union, which in…

Pacifica Radio: …KPFK in Los Angeles (1959); WBAI in New York City (1960); KPFT in Houston (1970); and WPFW in Washington, D.C. (1977). Pacifica also funds and promotes news and public affairs programs, most notably Democracy Now! and Free Speech Radio News, for its own and nearly 100 affiliated community radio stations.…

World Baseball Classic (WBC), international baseball tournament, first held in 2006, in which many of the world’s best players compete on behalf of national teams. The initial rounds are played on different continents. It was the first international baseball tournament to feature players currently

boxing: Professional organizations: In the early 1960s the World Boxing Council (WBC) was formed, and the National Boxing Association changed its name to the World Boxing Association (WBA). The International Boxing Federation (IBF) was established in 1983, which added to an already convoluted situation. Since the 1980s it has been common for most…

Westboro Baptist Church, church in Topeka, Kansas, that became well known for its strident opposition to homosexuality and the gay rights movement, as expressed on picket signs carried by church members at funerals and other events. The church also demonstrated against other religions, most notably

WBCN: While many progressive rock stations died painful, public deaths, one of the first—WBCN in Boston, Massachusetts—carried on. Founded in 1967 by Ray Riepen, club owner (the Boston Tea Party) and later underground newspaper publisher (The Phoenix), WBCN quickly grew in popularity and power. Its most…

While many progressive rock stations died painful, public deaths, one of the first—WBCN in Boston, Massachusetts—carried on. Founded in 1967 by Ray Riepen, club owner (the Boston Tea Party) and later underground newspaper publisher (The Phoenix), WBCN quickly grew in popularity and power. Its most

wet-bulb temperature (WBT), lowest temperature to which a person or an object can be cooled solely by the evaporation of water, given a constant barometric pressure. It is so named because its approximate value is obtained from a wet-bulb thermometer. Whereas a normal, dry-bulb thermometer measures

World Council of Churches (WCC), Christian ecumenical organization founded in 1948 in Amsterdam as “a fellowship of Churches which accept Jesus Christ our Lord as God and Saviour.” The WCC is not a church, nor does it issue orders or directions to the churches. It works for the unity and renewal of

Society of Christian Endeavor: The World’s Christian Endeavor Union (WCEU), organized in 1895, is a cooperative organization for Christian Endeavor groups in more than 40 countries. It holds conventions every four years. Headquarters for both organizations are in the United States.

Bertha, baroness von Suttner was an Austrian novelist who was one of the first notable woman pacifists. She is credited with influencing Alfred Nobel in the establishment of the Nobel Prize for Peace, of which she was the recipient in 1905. Her major novel, Die Waffen nieder! (1889; Lay Down Your

José Andrés: World Central Kitchen: Andrés began to feel the need to give back, and he started volunteering at DC Central Kitchen, an organization that takes food that otherwise would be thrown away and uses it to train food service workers and feed underserved people in Washington.…

World Confederation of Labour (WCL), labour confederation founded as the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions in 1920 to represent the interests of Christian labour unions in western Europe and Latin America. It was reconstituted under its present name in 1968. Although the

World Customs Organization (WCO), intergovernmental organization established as the Customs Co-operation Council (CCC) in 1952 to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of customs administrations worldwide. In 1948 a study group of the Committee for European Economic Cooperation, a precursor of

tennis: Professional and open tennis: …Cup captain George MacCall, and World Championship Tennis (WCT), founded by New Orleans promoter Dave Dixon and funded by Dallas oil and football tycoon Lamar Hunt. Between them they signed a significant number of the world’s top players, professional and amateur.

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), American temperance organization, founded in November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, in response to the “Woman’s Crusade,” a series of temperance demonstrations that swept through New York and much of the Midwest in 1873–74. Annie Wittenmyer, an experienced

Vince McMahon: Early life and the WWE: …magnate Ted Turner and renamed World Championship Wrestling [WCW]) experienced a resurgence, and its cable broadcasts soon surpassed those of the WWF in viewership. McMahon responded by hiring new writers to create soap-opera-like story lines. Skimpily clad female wrestlers became prominent, as did “colorful language” (profanity) and “sign language” (obscene…

darts: …the founder member of the World Darts Federation (WDF), which represents more than 500,000 darts players in 50 countries. The major championships are the Winmau World Masters, the WDF World Cup, and the Embassy World Professional Darts Championship.

World Development Indicators (WDI), comprehensive set of data and statistics published annually by the World Bank that allows for the evaluation of the development of most countries in the world. The availability of World Development Indicators (WDI) enables more-informed public and private policy

WDIA: Black Music Mother Station: When WDIA went on the air in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1948, its white owners, Bert Ferguson and John R. Pepper, were anything but blues aficionados; however, deejay Nat D. Williams was. A former high-school history teacher and journalist, Williams brought his own records and his…

When WDIA went on the air in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1948, its white owners, Bert Ferguson and John R. Pepper, were anything but blues aficionados; however, deejay Nat D. Williams was. A former high-school history teacher and journalist, Williams brought his own records and his familiarity with

Library of Congress: … proposed a project called the World Digital Library. Its goal was to make available to anyone with access to the Internet digitized texts and images of “unique and rare materials from libraries and other cultural institutions around the world.” It was designed to be searchable in seven languages—Arabic, Chinese, English,…

Cologne: Cultural life: …the concert hall of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR; “West German Radio”), the high reputation of the latter being largely due to the WDR’s encouragement of contemporary music. A full repertoire is offered in theatre and opera as well, and the municipal theatre has its own ballet ensemble.

10 Devastating Dystopias: My (1920; We), by Yevgeny Zamyatin: Yevgeny Zamyatin, one of the most subversive authors to hail from Russia, penned perhaps the most fundamental dystopian text in 1920. Although Russia forbade its publication until 1988, My (or We in English) circulated throughout the nation in manuscript…

Mesopotamian religion: Myths: …one of their number—the god We, apparently the ringleader who “had the idea”—be killed and humankind created from clay mixed with his flesh and blood, so that the toil of the gods could be laid on humankind and the gods left to go free. But after Enki and the birth…

African art: Dan-We: The Dan-We complex of styles is named after two extremes of stylistic variation: the smooth, restrained style of the Dan, the De, and the Diomande and the grotesque style of the We (the Guere, the Wobe, and the Kran), a less-extreme form of which…

Jon Batiste: Bands and albums: …released the full pop album We Are, which featured guest appearances by Mavis Staples and author Zadie Smith, among others.

Wael Ghonim: …the administrator of the “We Are All Khaled Said” page. He praised the Egyptian protesters’ courage and wept when he was shown pictures of protesters who had been killed. The interview is often credited with having reenergized the Egyptian protest movement after a week of violent reprisals by the…

Marilyn Manson: Marilyn Manson, the band: …Age of Grotesque (2003), and We Are Chaos (2020), were relatively less successful.

Malala Yousafzai: Shooting and Nobel Peace Prize: …as her own displacement in We Are Displaced (2019).

disco: Queer culture and political themes: …Now” and Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family” (both 1979), and feminism—in particular, Black women’s liberation as expressed by African American divas such as Candi Staton in “Young Hearts Run Free” (1976) and Chaka Khan in “I’m Every Woman” (1978).

Australian literature: Literature from 1970 to 2000: …her first volume of poetry, We Are Going, in 1964. Mudrooroo Narogin (Colin Johnson, whose Aboriginal identity, however, was questioned) published his first novel, Wild Cat Falling, in 1965. Jack Davis wrote several acclaimed plays. Sally Morgan’s autobiography, My Place (1987), is a moving account of her discovery of her…

Harry Connick, Jr.: …1990 he released two albums, We Are in Love, a big-band sound with vocals, and Lofty’s Roach Soufflé, showcasing instrumental jazz. Connick won a second Grammy Award for best jazz vocal performance for We Are in Love. Connick’s subsequent albums included Blue Light, Red Light (1991), 25 (1992), She (1994),…

Matthew McConaughey: …Sahara (2005), the football drama We Are Marshall (2006), and the Hollywood satire Tropic Thunder (2008).

Taylor Swift: Kanye West incident at the VMAs, Red, and 1989: …lead single, the gleeful “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” gave Swift her first number-one hit on the Billboard pop singles chart.

Daniel Handler: …a futuristic San Francisco, and We Are Pirates (2015), about a contemporary teenager who develops an interest in piracy. Handler later explored teeenage sexuality in All the Dirty Parts (2017), which centres on a 17-year-old boy. The dark comedy Bottle Grove was published in 2019. He also wrote Why We…

Queen: Anthem rockers and Live Aid: …followed in 1977 with “We Are the Champions” and “We Will Rock You”—which became ubiquitous anthems at sporting events in Britain and the United States. The Game (1980), featuring “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and “Another One Bites the Dust,” was Queen’s first number one album in the United…

the Chemical Brothers: …Push the Button (2005) and We Are the Night (2007) earned Grammy Awards for best dance/electronic albums. Later releases included Further (2010), Don’t Think (2012), and Born in the Echoes (2015). In addition, the Chemical Brothers created the soundtrack for the 2011 thriller movie Hanna and wrote and performed

Alice Walker: Later work and controversies: …Trade Center and Pentagon (2001), We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness (2006), and The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way (2013). Walker also wrote juvenile fiction and critical essays…

Kadir Nelson: Author and illustrator: …debut as a writer was We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (2008), which chronicles Negro league baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s to its decline in the late 1940s; Nelson also illustrated the work. In 2009 he received the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal…

On January 28, 1985, more than 45 of the era’s most popular singers and songwriters gathered to record a song to raise funds for the charity USA for Africa. The song, “We Are the World,” released on March 7 that year, was an immediate media sensation. It sold an astonishing 800,000 copies in three

Kurt Vonnegut: Posthumous works: We Are What We Pretend to Be (2012) comprised an early unpublished novella and a fragment of a novel unfinished at his death. A selection of his correspondence was published as Letters (2012). Complete Stories (2017) collects all of his short fiction.

Luca Guadagnino: …directing the 2020 HBO series We Are Who We Are, about teenagers on a U.S. military base in Italy, he again collaborated with Chalamet on Bones and All (2022). The film, which also stars Taylor Russell, tells the story of two teenage cannibals and is based on the 2015 novel…

Lionel Barrymore: We Barrymores (1951), by Lionel Barrymore as told to Cameron Shipp, is basically an autobiography but contains much information on his famous siblings, John and Ethel.

Randy Newman: …Oscar, for the song “We Belong Together” from the latter film. He also scored Cars 3 (2017) and Toy Story 4 (2019). His song (“I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away”) for the latter film and his score for the drama Marriage Story (2019) earned Newman his 21st and…

Matt Damon: The Departed, Invictus, and True Grit: …about a deadly virus; and We Bought a Zoo, adapted from a memoir about a family who moves to a wildlife park. Damon then wrote with costar John Krasinski the drama Promised Land (2012), in which Damon played a gas-company representative seeking to obtain drilling rights in a rural community.

Grace Slick: Jefferson Starship, Starship, and later years: …in the 1980s, including “We Built This City” and “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” featuring Slick on colead vocals with American singer Mickey Thomas.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas: International fame: …was in the superhero film We Can Be Heroes (2020). Her later acting credits include the crime drama The White Tiger (2021), the science fiction film The Matrix Resurrections (2021), the romantic drama Love Again (2023), the comedy Heads of State (2025), and the thriller The Bluff

Rosie the Riveter: …but it was titled “We Can Do It!” and had no association with anyone named Rosie. It is believed that this initial drawing was part of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation’s wartime production campaign to recruit female workers. Miller’s drawing portrayed a woman in a red bandana with her bent…

Philip K. Dick: …adapted for film, including “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (filmed as Total Recall [1990 and 2012]), “Second Variety” (filmed as Screamers [1995]), “The Minority Report” (filmed as Minority Report [2002]), and A Scanner Darkly (1977; film 2006). The Man in the High Castle was loosely adapted as…

In choosing to remove monuments honoring figures now viewed as objectionable, contemporary Americans are in a world-historical majority. Removing statues is a recourse with a long history. Popular revolutions often bring down statues of hated rulers—one recalls the destruction of Saddam Hussein’s

Arthur Ransome: …children’s literature; however, its successor, We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea (1937), is widely considered Ransome’s masterpiece.

All 119 References in “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Explained: …Billboard Hot 100 hit “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” American songwriter Billy Joel rattles off a list of historical references in order to argue that his generation…well, like the title says, didn’t “start the fire” of global tragedy, scandal, and screw-ups. Some items in his list are obvious—the names…

Han Kang: Novels: Jakbyeolhaji anneunda (2021; We Do Not Part) is a work of historical fiction that centers on the impact of a massacre committed by the South Korean government during a rebellion on Jeju Island in the 1940s.