On a gray November morning, stacks of essays sat on an admissions counselor’s desk at a New England liberal arts college. She ...

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Adapted from Without You, There Is No Us: My Time With the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim. Out now from Crown Publishers. Essay was a much-dreaded word among my students. It was the fall of ...