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 …
Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, a late-night live comedy show that airs every Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she’s long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally’s friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begin…
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She had a normal teenager’s life. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors daily. Secretly, though, she is desperate to find a way out of her beloved country before her sister-in-law, L…
A common exercise in the first-year composition course is the literacy narra-tive—an autobiographical reflection upon the paths, interests, and practices that led the writer to the very moment of writing the narrative, focusing in particular on reading and writing as the pillars of literacy. A variation on this assignment, first introduced to me by Dickie Selfe (see Kit…
Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome This book introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche. It considers Shakespeare’s place in the history of concepts of selfhood and reflects on his sympathy for Christianity, in light of his reception of me…
The Grinch hated Christmas ! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all. May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
The Black Dog of Depression has descended over the adults of Dublin. Uncles are losing their businesses, dads won’t get out of bed, mothers no longer smile at their children. Siblings Raymond and Gloria have had enough and set out one night with one goal in mind: to stop the Black Dog, whatever it takes. In a chase through the streets and parks and beaches of Dublin, the children run after th…
Readers of this volume will be able to tell from the Introduction andnotes throughout the book how great a debt I owe to many distin-guished scholars past and present. Without them, this work would havebeen impossible. Here I want to express my gratitude to a number ofpeople who have influenced this project more directly. The book isdedicated to David R. Knechtges, wh…
Perhaps in anticipation of posthumous damnation, Wang Jingwei on his deathbed asked his family and followers not to publish his speeches or essays. A collection of his classical-style verses alone, he declared, would serve as his testament.4 An editorial committee duly compiled and published his poems as Poetry on the Double-Shining Tower in May 1945,5three months before…
Are you minding your writing? Are you deliberately tak-ing the myriad decisions that academic writing asks you to take? Do you know yourself as a writer well enough? Not at all, or not as much as you wish? I thought so. Why else would you pick up this book?Don’t feel ashamed. We all have our writing weak-nesses that we don’t want to look at too closely …
Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs offers fifteen essays on the triptych of poetry + translation + Chinese. The collection has three parts: "The Translator's Take," "Theoretics," and "Impact." The conversation stretches from queer-feminist engagement with China's newest poetry to philosophical and philological reflections on its oldest, and from Tang- and Song-dynasty classical p…
The Chinese state uses cultural heritage as a source of power by linking it to political and economic goals, but heritage discourse has at the same time encouraged new actors to appropriate the discourse to protect their own traditions. This book focuses on that contested nature of heritage, especially through the lens of individuals, local communities, religious groups, and heritage experts. I…
Begitu tiba di taman, Echa memejamkan mata dan menarik napas dalam-dalam. Senyum manis terkembang lebar di bibirnya. "Lo ngapain, Cha? Lagi syuting iklan? Kok pose lo kayak gitu?" Mata Echa langsung terbuka mendengar suara yang amat dikenalnya itu. Dengan sinis, Echa melirik Evan yang entah sejak kapan berada di hadapannya. "Lo lagi, lo lagi. Kenapa sih lo selalu muncul di deket gue? Lo ngef…
This is a book that I wrote when I was heartbroken. I’d imagine that’s how many books get made. We lose something we love and it seems natural to try to reconstruct it mulling over memories, sorting through missteps, bleeding our expired hopes and habits onto paper, hoping some part of what we’ve loved will still be salvageable. If only I can make this pain pretty, we tell ourselves,…
Apa yang terjadi ketika pagi seorang playboy dihancurkan oleh kehadiran sebuah "paket" tak terduga? Paket spesial itu berupa seorang bayi menggemaskan ditinggalkan begitu saja oleh salah satu mantan kekasihnya. Tapi, si pria yang nyaman bergonta-ganti pasangan ini menyangkal mati-matian kalau bayi itu darah dagingnya dan mengaku masih perjaka. Wah! Akan tetapi, kehadiran bayi ini tanpa terduga…
Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for instance, …
A medieval Middle-Eastern literary epic which tells the story of Scheherazade, a Sassanid Queen, who must relate a series of stories to her malevolent husband, the King, to delay her execution. The stories are told over a period of one thousand and one nights, and every night she ends the story with a suspenseful situation, forcing the King to keep her alive for another day. The individual stor…
Kesya tidak pernah menyangka kehidupannya yang biasa saja akan berubah drastis setelah mengenal Rafael. Dari cewek yang tidak menonjol menjadi cewek incaran dua cowok terkenal di sekolahnya. Perjalanan cinta Kesya sama sekali tidak mulus. Saat mulai jatuh cinta pada Rafael, Kesya harus berurusan dengan Windhy, sahabatnya, yang masih menyimpan dendam pada cowok itu. Seakan hidup Kesya belum cu…
Gurney: What was the face value of the policy? Gorham: One thousand dollars. Gurney: Do you know how much money Morlock owed at the time of his wife's death? Gorham: Certainly not. Gurney: But you do know that he was heavily in debt and that he was being hounded by his creditors. * * * The Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Alvin Morlock. Direct testimony of George Gorham. I…
Nico, dokter muda dari keluarga dokter terkenal yang dijodohkan dengan Beatrice, mengatakan rencananya yang hanya akan menikahi Beatrice selama setahun. Nico yakin bahwa tunangannya, yang pergi dua bulan menjelang pernikahan mereka, akan kembali. Jadi, ia hanya memerlukan wanita yang mau menjadi istri pengganti untuk membuat keluarganya tidak malu dan menekannya terus-menerus untuk melupakan tu…
An extravagant but cleverly planned burlesque that works as a condemnation of Chivalry, one of Twain's chief aversions.
We cannot see it, nor can we appreciate this machine, any more than we can the spoke of a wheel spinning, or a bullet flying through the air. If it is travelling through time fifty times or a hundred times faster than we are, if it gets through a minute while we get through a second, the impression it creates will of course be only one-fiftieth or one-hundredth of what it would make if it were …
In June 2018, in preparation for writing this chapter, I undertook two distinct searches. The first was of Oxford college and faculty libraries (around 40 in all), using the search tool SOLO (Search Oxford Libraries Online). The second, of local charity shops around Oxford, I undertook on foot. In both I was looking for copies of historical novels by British women writers of the mid-…
The Old English poem known in the modern era as Beowulf consists of some 3182 lines of alliterative verse. The poem is preserved on folios 129r to 198v of a unique and badly damaged Anglo-Saxon manuscript sometimes called the ‘Nowell Codex’ and now known by its shelf mark as the London, British Library, MS. Cotton Vitellius A.xv. The text was copied by two dif…
he apparent simplicity of the etymology of “autofiction”—designating texts that have something to do with the self and with fiction—is belied by the proliferation of meanings and practices with which it is associated. Critical writing on autofiction will usually mention one or more of the fol-lowing characteristics, all of which can characterize autofictional texts, b…
Despite intermittent upsurges of climate change scepticism among conservative politicians and journalists in the Anglosphere, there is now a near consensus among climate scientists – and indeed amongmost other scientists – that current levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas are sufficient to alter global weather patterns to possibly disastrous effect. Rec…
We also enjoy reading, watching, or listening to stories that we know are not true, but whose characters, places, and events spark our imagination and allow us to experience different worlds as if they were our own. These are the kind of stories we call ‘fiction.’ Many people like to watch series or soap operas on TV. And even more people like to watch movies, whether…
he old king, Mādhāi,3 his favored [queen] Priyāvatī, and their two princes, Śāmsundar and Dāmodar, were among those so chosen. Priyāvatī constantly fussed over her husband, ministering to his needs in both body and spirit. While the king, indeed, did have many fine qualities and served to protect dharma, as a rule he proved extremely mean-spirited toward phak…
When traditional Chinese critics discuss pentasyllabic poetry,they usually give allegorical interpretations of individual works, makegeneral observations about social backgrounds and the lives of poets, oroffer impressionistic comments on the aesthetic qualities of the works ofgiven poets. Based on what they discover in these studies, they sketch abroad outli…
Manfred, Prince of Otranto, had one son and one daughter: the latter, a most beautiful virgin, aged eighteen, was called Matilda. Conrad, the son, was three years younger, a homely youth, sickly, and of no promising disposition; yet he was the darling of his father, who never showed any symptoms of affection to Matilda. Manfred had contracted a marriage for his son with the Marquis of Vicenza…
Kita semua punya alur dan cita-cita yang berbeda, bahkan saat menggunakan lema yang serupa, selalu ada keunikan antara satu perempuan dengan perempuan lainnya. Kompleksitas keperempuanan kita dan segala perannya, butuh pemahaman dan percakapan untuk mengurainya; karena itulah, buku ini diterbitkan. Buku ini merangkum begitu banyak kisah perempuan yang jadi sumber inspirasi dan teman eksplorasi…