Cinta tak selamanya harus memiliki. Begitu pula cinta Galih dan Raras. Dalamnya cinta Galih pada Krasnaya, gadis Rusia yang telah begitu memikatnya, membuat Galih sulit untuk jatuh cinta lagi. Bahkan kematian Krasnaya tak bisa mengubur cintanya pada gadis itu sampai kemudian dia bertemu Raras. Tetapi cintanya pada Raras bertepuk sebelah tangan. Raras ternyata tidak bisa menerima cinta Galih, ay…
Urip mung mampir ngombe, hidup cuma mampir minum. Hidup cuma mampir ngopi. Di warung kopi, semua orang datang dan pergi. Di warung kopi, orang bisa tampak menjadi lebih lega, santai, dan gembira. Di warung kopi, tidak sedikit manusia yang menciptakan surga kecil barang sesaat untuk dirinya. Lewat sebuah kejadian tak terduga, suatu ketika Iwan berada dalam dunia antara hidup dan mati. Ia berte…
Hujan pernah merebut seseorang dariku. Ia merampas kebahagiaan yang tumbuh di dadaku. Ia memaksa aku menjadi sendiri. Hujan juga pernah membuat janji kepadaku. Ia tak akan jatuh lagi di mataku. Namun ia berdusta, ia meninggalkan aku tanpa permisi. Saat aku merasa hujan hanya datang untuk menyakiti, kamu hadir. Mengajarkan aku bahwa Tuhan tak menciptakan hujan untuk bersedih, tetapi Ia menyiap…
Terdiri atas 14 cerita, kisah-kisah ini menunjukkan sisi gelap kebinatangan manusia. Akan tetapi di tengah-tengah kehidupan yang kian keras, liar, dan buas mereka tetap berusaha menjadi manusia. Manusia yang ringkih dan fana. Ketika kau mendengarkan apa pun yang berada di kelas berubah menjadi aneka suara di kebun binatang, Almira terlanjur mengasah taring dan kali ini sepasang mata liarnya me…
Aisyah, alias Icha, frustrasi hidup di desanya. Satu-satunya hal yang membuatnya bisa melupakan frustrasinya hanya acara infotainment di televisi. Icha memimpikan bisa bekerja di kancah selebriti. Di matanya, tak ada yang lebih indah dari kehidupan di tengah gelimang cahaya para bintang. Apalagi, Deden, mantan pacarnya yang sudah jadi make up artist dan homo, kini hidup lebih makmur. Nasib akhi…
Maharani lahir pada tahun 1925 ketika Batavia mencapai puncak kejayaannya. Ia memiliki segalanya. Cantik, cerdas, kaya, dan terhormat. Namun, putri jenderal Belanda itu harus menelan kepahitan hidup kala ayahnya meninggal. Apalagi Belanda kemudian kalah dari Jepang. Ibu tirinya lalu menyerahkan Rani ke pemerintah Jepang untuk dijadikan jugun ianfu. Harga dirinya terempas. Tubuhnya bukan lagi m…
When the guards came over, they made us line up against the wall. The guy who was hit they made sit at the table while they waited for another guard to bring them rubber gloves. When the gloves came, the guards put them on, handcuffed the guy, and then took him to the dispensary. He was still bleeding pretty bad. They say you get used to being in jail, but I don’t see how. Every morning I wak…
Hati Sandra hancur ketika dengan mata kepalanya sendiri ia melihat Lucky, pacarnya, mencium adik kelas yang menurut seisi sekolah jauh lebih cantik dan pintar darinya. Kepercayaan diri Sandra sirna karena kejadian itu. Namun, di tengah keterpurukannya, Irfan - cowok yang pernah mengejar-ngejar Aura, sahabat Sandra - datang tanpa disangka-sangka ke dalam kehidupan Sandra. Image playboy cowok it…
The man billed as Prospero the Enchanter receives a fair amount of correspondence via the theater office, but this is the first envelope addressedto him that contains a suicide note, and it is also the first to arrive carefully pinned to the coat of a five-year-old girl. The lawyer who escorts her to the theater refuses to explain despite the manager’s protestations, abandoning her as quickly…
Video mulai berputar. "Hai, Satya! Hai, Cakra!" Sang bapak melambaikan tangan. "Ini bapak. Iya, benar kok, ini bapak. Bapak cuma pindah ke tempat lain. Gak sakit. Alhamdulillah, berkat doa Satya dan Cakra. ... Mungkin bapak tidak dapat duduk dan bermain di samping kalian. Tapi, bapak tetap ingin kalian tumbuh dengan bapak di samping kalian. Ingin tetap dapat bercerita kepada kalian. …
"Lo tau sendiri cowok. Bisanya ngedeketin doang, tapi pas cewek lagi sayang-sayangnya sama tuh cowok malah ditinggalin." Bagi Tana, Reno adalah manajer yang belum merasa puas kalau belum menyiksanya dengan segudang pekerjaan. Sampai akhirnya kemudian ia tahu, kalau si manajer galaknya ini adalah Aren, bocah gendut dan ingusan yang dulu jadi teman kecilnya. "Aku bukannya lelah berjuang, aku …
Before the pessimism of the 1920s set in, a brief period of optimism (roughly from 1890 to 1914) reigned in France which is popularly known as ‘the belle époque’. It constituted an exhilarating period of economic prosperity and progress. People living during this time were materially confident and culturally optimistic. Inventions like the telephone, the automobile, the airplane, and the c…
Little indeed is known of the origin of English Literature, though it is reasonable to assume that verse of an extemporary kind was composed long before the period of the earliest written records and that we can be certain that poetry made its appearance long before the first prose was written down. It is important from the outset to remember that the extant remains of Old English Literature ha…
We called him the Professor. And he called my son Root, because he said, the flat top of his head reminded him of the square root sign. "There's a fine brain in there," the Professor said, mussing my son's hair. Root, who wore a cap to avoid being teased by his friends, gave a wary shurg. "With this one little sign, we can come to know an infinite range of numbers, even those we can't see." He …
ate last night it hung over the rooftops, it glowed with the light from the street lamps, and tonight it decided to fall - snow. It is the first snow of the new year, the first snow of the new century - snow bringing renewal to the world. Today is in the New Century - the Old Century came to an end yesterday. A hundred years have gone by. A balloon, gradually deflating, deflating …
Darwish's poetic fraternity includes Federico Garcfa Lorca's canto hondo (deep song), Pablo Neruda's bardic epic range, Osip Mandelstam's elegiac poignancy, and Yehuda Amichai's sensitive lyric responsiveness to the contemporary history of the region. As a poet of exilic being, he resembles C. P. Cavafy, and shares with other poet-exiles of the past century a certain understanding of the exilic…
Emily Dickinson, then thirty-one years old, was writing a professional man of letters to inqUIre whether her verses "breathed." Higginson was still living at Worcester, Massachusetts, where he had recently resigned his pastorate of a "free" church, and was begmning to establIsh a reputation as essayist and a lecturer in the cause of reforms. She dared bring herself to his attention because she …
It wasn’t quite prayer but the more I recited its words the more incantatory power they assumed. “What can I say to you, dar-ling,” I repeated to myself, “When you ask me for help?” It was early on an otherwise ordinary weekend morning twelve or fifteen years ago. The Long Island Rail Road car speeding me out east, not fast enough, grooved a quiet rumble into the d…
Perahu Kertas bercerita tentang dua orang yang sama-sama unik bernama Kugy dan Keenan. Kugy adalah seorang mahasiswi Sastra berkepribadian nyentrik yang bercita-cita menjadi juru dongeng. Keenan adalah seorang laki-laki kalem yang cinta melukis, namun harus kuliah Ekonomi karena mengikuti keinginan ayahnya.
Saka, anak seorang dalang yang punya cita-cita jadi anak band. Di tengah keluarga yang sangat menjunjung tinggi nilai-nilai tradisional, Saka malah tergila-gila dengan musik rock and roll. So pasti cita-citanya itu ditentang habis-habisan oleh orang tuanya. Apalagi pas tahu kalau Putri, adik kesayangannya yang menjadikan Saka sebagai panutan, tiba-tiba ngotot ingin ikut bersamanya ke kota. Ken…
Kevin Charles Wyler memulai perjalanan pertamanya menjelajahi Asia Tenggara ke Vietnam. Menjauh dari kerumitan masalah di kota kelahirannya, Los Angeles. Baru tiga hari berada di kota yang dulu bernama Saigon ini, lalu lintas ajaib Ho Chi Minh membuatnya celaka. Tatiana Rawnie menjejakkan kaki untuk yang pertama kalinya di Ho Chi Minh, melakukan perjalanan bersama dua temannya, sekaligus menem…
Trying to recover here, for recognition, the germ of my idea, I see that it must have consisted not at all in any conceit of a "plot", nefarious name, in any flash, upon the fancy, of a set of relations, or in any one of those situations that, by a logic of their own, immediately fall, for the fabulist, into movement into a march or a rush, a patter of quick steps; but altogether in the sense o…
Somewhere in the period after the peak of deconstruction as a literary/ critical method of textual analysis, a trend towards interdisciplinary crosspollination occurred. This trend is buttressed by the academic tearing down – usually by humanities departments – of the special status heretofore accorded to texts produced by disciplines that utilize the scientific method as their primary sour…
Soon the cameras were rolling in front of the living room fireplace, with Koppel in his crisp blue suit and Morrie in his shaggy gray sweater. He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. His philosophy was that death should not be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose. Because Morrie sat in the wheelchair, the camera never caught his withered legs. And because he was …
This collection includes four of the seven books that Kafka published during — or just after — his lifetime. Even if Kafka’s three novels had remained unpublished, in keeping with his professed wish, his short fiction would have given him a secure place in the modernist canon. During his life they brought him, if not fame, at least the respect of many fellow-writers. Robert Musil invited …
In fact, it’s her job. A favor for a friend in college who was afraid she’d been catfished soon turned into a full-blown business. Now, as the owner of The Ex Files, a matchmaking service based Ocean View, she dates men nearly every day of the week in order to vet them, assuring the matches she makes are perfectly informed and free of heartache. With her job comes pitfalls, though: every…
Apa tujuan hidupmu? Kalau itu ditanyakan kepadaku saat remaja, aku pasti nggak bisa menjawabnya. Jangankan tujuan hidup, cara belajar yang benar saja aku nggak tahu. Setiap hari aku ke sekolah lebih suka bertemu teman-teman dan bermain kartu. Aku nggak tahu apa yang menjadi passion-ku. Aku sekadar menjalani apa yang ibu pilihkan untukku - termasuk melanjutkan kuliah di Jerman. Tentu bukan kep…
Kerusakan lingkungan telah menjadi masalah pada saat ini. Rusaknya alam telah mengakibatkan terjadinya banyak bencana di bumi. Manusia yang seharusnya menjadi khalifah di bumi untuk menjaga serta merawat bumi justru banyak melakukan kerusakan pada lingkungannya. Hal inilah yang menjadi inspirasi para pengarang untuk mengangkatnya dalam karya sastra. Buku berjudul Sastra dan Ekologi yang ter…
Orang bilang, jodoh takkan ke mana. Aku rasa mereka keliru. Jodoh akan ke mana-mana terlebih dahulu sebelum akhirnya menetap. Ketika waktunya telah tiba, ketika segala rasa sudah tidak bisa lagi lagi dilawan, yang bisa kita lakukan hanyalah merangkul tanpa perlu banyak kompromi.
Han Mi Soo Usiaku baru enam tahun saat kecelakaan besar yang telah merenggut nyawa kedua orang tuaku itu terjadi. Hari-hari yang kuhabiskan di panti asuhan membuatku belajar banyak tentang kenyataan hidup. Setelah diadopsi pun aku tetap bertekad untuk selalu merawat anak-anak yang berada di sana. Namun semua berubah ketika seorang pengacara bernama Choi Ji Hoon datang dan berusaha untuk merobo…
In the nine years since the last edition, I have traveled widely, applied my ideas to writing, publishing, and producing projects of my own, and done a few more "tours of duty" as it were for major Hollywood studios. The first of these jobs, commencing just after the publishing of the second edition, was a four-year return to 20th Century Fox, where I had been a story analyst at the beginning …
Setelah misteri pembunuhan pengacara kontroversial Rangga Tohjaya terungkap di pelataran Patung Imperia, Konstanz, Jerman (Ilusi Imperia), tersiar kabar sang diva Melanie Capricia - MC - ditemukan tewas di kawasan dekat Masjid Yavuz Sultan Selim, Mannheim; sementara Adelia Sukmono, manajer MC, mati di daerah wisata Lindenhof, Zurich, pada hari yang sama. Keduanya sosok kunci dalam kasus Rangga.…
Brainstorming is a way of gathering ideas about a topic. Think of a storm; thousands of drops of rain, all coming down together. Now, imagine thousands of ideas raining down onto your paper. When you brainstorm, write down every idea that comes to you. Don't worry now about whether the ideas are good or silly, useful or not. You can decide that later. Right now, you are gathering as many ideas …
Reporter majalah Dimensi, Wikan Larasati, diminta Interpol untuk terlibat dalam pencarian kalung bersejarah Tears of the Virgin Mary yang diduga dibuang ke Danau Konstanz di dekat pelataran Patung Imperia, Jerman. Kalung yang konon berasal dari era Konsili Nicea I pada awal abad ke-4 tersebut merupakan kunci untuk membongkar jaringan internasional penggangsir artefak purbakala yang beraksi di m…
Kenapa kamu membenci bangsa Vampire, Claire? "Gambaran itu terus-menerus berputar di kepala, tentang malam kematian ayahku. Ketika ibu menggendong Viccy yang berusia empat tahun dan membelai rambutku - membiarkan aku menangis ketakutan..." Lewatilah sebuah portal di ujung bumi dan kau akan memasuki Acelyn, sebuah dunia yang terdiri dari lima negeri besar: Negeri Manusia Serigala, Warlock, Peri…
Hal-hal yang ingin Ruth Karenina lakukan sebelum menikah: No. 1 Liburan dengan Sonia dan Carol. No. 2 Tinggal di luar negeri selama beberapa waktu. No. 3 Membuat suatu proyek fotografi. No. 4 Satu kali kencan dengan Eric Christopher. Dengan alasan ingin melakukan banyak hal sebelum terikat dalam pernikahan, Karenina membuat sederet daftar keinginan. Daftar yang membuatnya terseret dalam pu…
"Kamu membuatku ingin hidup. Padahal sebelumnya aku begitu ingin mengakhiri hidupku." Kata-kata itu keluar dari mulut seorang pria dingin yang tidak pernah merasakan cinta. Pria misterius yang mempertanyakan tujuan keberadaannya di dunia ini. Pria yang terbuang dari keluarganya sendiri. Namun, semua itu tidak membuat Sybil menjauh dari pria bernama Noah itu. Padahal, sejak pertama kali ia ber…
As we gradually saw, there is more to the dialogue form of our expositions than we initially realized – something new, perhaps, in poetry criticism; we could call it dialogical poetics. We are accustomed to seeing all extended commentary on poetry as the vision of some individual consciousness – the more individual and “original,” the better. There is almost always a significant degree …
Nurturing our mental health and well-being is more important than ever. United Nations personnel are committed to endlessly making a positive impact in our world. While this can be rewarding, it can take a toll on our mental health and well-being. As the Chair of the UN System Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being Strategy Implementation Board, I am proud of the work undertaken across the UN S…
Quinn Berkowitz and Tarek Mansour’s families have been in business together for years: Quinn’s parents are wedding planners, and Tarek’s own a catering company. At the end of last summer, Quinn confessed her crush on him in the form of a rambling email—and then he left for college without a response. Quinn has been dreading seeing him again almost as much as she dreads another summer…
In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she creates for her sister …
I was the girl no one looked at twice. Until they saw me. My whole life, no one has had my back. My parents are dead, my adoptive mother is a drug addict, and the mean girls on campus mock me for my scars. So when I end up desperate for money and out of options, I agree to sell the one thing I have left: my innocence. On the night I’m meant to give my body to a brutal Russian mobster, three m…
Helen is one of the brightest minds of her generation: a young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity (which could save the planet). When she discovers that her brilliant adviser is involved in a sex scandal, Helen is torn: should she give up on her work with him? Or should she accompany him to a controversial university, founded by a provocateur billionaire, that hosts…
Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search …
On a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish family. Who would commit such a heinous crime against a young man whose life was just beginning? The more Kate ge…
Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus. Once unleashed, the Arctic Plague will reshape life on ea…
London, 1889. Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian beau Stoker are summoned by Sir Hugo Montgomerie, head of Special Branch. He has a personal request on behalf of his goddaughter, Euphemia Hathaway. After years of traveling the world, her eldest brother, Jonathan, heir to Hathaway Hall, was believed to have been killed in the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa a few years before. But…
Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way…with fists and beer. Usually in that order. Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi’s car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexp…
When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy’s father. Katy has been wai…
In the wake of her parents’ death, Aretha, a habitually single Black lawyer, has had only one obsession in life—success—until she falls for Aaron, a coffee entrepreneur. Moving into his Brooklyn brownstone to live along with his Hurricane Sandy-traumatized, illegal-gun-stockpiling, optimized-soy-protein-eating, bunker-building roommates, Aretha finds that her dreams of making partner are …