Suki Kim is the only writer ever to go live undercover in North Korea. Her New York Times bestselling book of investigative literary nonfiction, Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korean Elite documents the final year of the Kim Jong-il regime and the psychology of its future leadership. An investigative journalist and a novelist, Kim’s first novel, The Interpreter, was a finalist for a PEN Hemingway Prize, and she is a contributing editor at The New Republic. (Co-sponsorship for this reading is provided by the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.)