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…
Halo, dengan pemilik buku Alster Lake? Eh, iya bener itu buku punyaku Bisa nggak kamu kembalikan? Aku mohon jangan dicuri, ya? Kalo saya pinjem sebentar, boleh? Mau baca Besok saya kembalikan Aduh, gimana ya... Bukannya nggak boleh tapi, ada notes pentingku di situ Boleh ketemuan dulu nggak? Di Perpusnas ya Sekarang kalau bisa Oh ok. Saya masih di perpus kok Di mana? Sp…
Apa benar arwah gadis hamil yang bunuh diri jadi arwah paling pendendam? Pertanyaan itu David lontarkan ke Jounatan setelah malam itu, saat mereka bertemu roh Pricil, siswi SMA yang bunuh diri dengan loncat dari jembatan. Ketika pertanyaan David belum terjawab, dan teka-teki kematian Pricil belum terurai, ternyata bahaya yang jauh lebih besar telah mengintai mereka. Dia yang bersemayam selama r…
Rumah adalah tempat di mana kita menemukan teman bercerita dan menjadi tempat pulang setelah lelah menjalani kehidupan. Kenyataannya, rumah tidaklah seperti rumah untuk beberapa orang. Banyak orang yang merasa ingin pulang meskipun sudah berada di rumah, karena rumah yang ditinggalinya tidak terasa seperti rumah. Kelima pemuda yaitu Jarvis, Abian, Haidan, Jaffan, dan Januar tinggal bersama di …
Dari penulis karya sastra pemenang Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa 2014 kategori prosa, Semua untuk Hindia, hadir kembali tiga belas cerita pendek berlatar kolonial. Dalam Teh dan Pengkhianat kita diajak bertamasya lagi ke masa silam: ketika awal mula sepeda dipakai kaum bumiputra di Hindia Belanda, sewaktu wabah cacar mengancam sementara sarana dan prasarana transportasi masih terbatas, saat globe …
Gara-gara peringkat try out-nya tembus ke nomor satu, Kalypso Dirgantari harus berhadapan dengan pemegang takhta empat besar di SMA Bina Indonesia. Re Dirgantara, Kenan Aditya, Adinda Aletheia, dan Aurora Calista. Punya motivasi masing-masing, kelimanya bersaing sengit memperebutkan peringkat paralel. Setidaknya sampai rahasia besar mengenai sistem sekolah terbongkar. Dibantu oleh kemunculan m…
Pengorbanan dan cinta Murad yang luar biasa terhadap Aceh, ternyata tetap tidak bisa membuatnya diterima di tanah kelahirannya sendiri. Di mana pun dia berada, nyawanya selalu terancam. Setelah menembak seorang anggota dewan, Murad menjadi buronan yang paling dicari. Selain pembunuh, dia juga dikecam sebagai penjahat paling kejam dan berbahaya. Dia juga diyakini hendak mengacau pemilihan umum …
Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. One terrible morning, Jude and her sisters see their parents murdered in front of them. The fearsome assassin abducts all three girls and brings them to the world of Faerie. Mocked …
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and clas…
Hilmy memang laki-laki yang sulit ditebak, nggak tahu kapan dia bercanda dan kapan dia serius. Lihat aja e-mail permohonan untuk Milan agar menjadi pacarnya: Hilmy Ram Fahreza Job Application Hilmy Fahreza Dengan hormat, perkenalkan saya: Nama : Hilmy Ram Fahreza Umur : 21 tahun Jenis Kelamin : Laki-laki Pendidikan Terakhir : Double Degree Manajemen Bisnis dan Perngelesan Dengan …
I'm standing on the red railway car that sits abandoned next to the barn. The wind soars, whipping my hair across my face and pushing a chill down the open neck of my shirt. The gales are strong this close to the mountain, as if the peak itself is exhaling. Down below, the valley is peaceful, undisturbed. Meanwhile our farm dances: the heavy conifer trees sway slowly, while the sagebrush and t…
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeus is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born, a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of…
Jatuh cinta lagi? Hmm, sepertinya itu tak ada lagi dalam kamus Helga. Kegagalannya dalam cinta dan selalu disakiti cowok, membuatnya merasa cukup! Untuk apa mengulangi semuanya lagi dari awal? Sebagai seorang penulis, Helga selalu mengabadikan hal berkesan di hidupnya dalam bentuk buku. Dan di tengah proses penulisan buku keenamnya, ia dipertemukan dengan 'buaya' tampan - Cello. Cello yang aw…
Akan datang masanya dua orang yang menjadikan satu sama lain nama terkuat dalam doanya bertemu. Jika tidak cepat, berbahagialah. Yang terbaik datang setelah berpikir matang-matang, bukan sekadar 'bersantap' asal datang. Janji temu yang Cello & Helga buat empat tahun lalu kini berbuah manis, sebab mereka bisa kembali ke satu sama lain dengan versi terbaik setelah menyelesaikan pergulatan dengan…
Mereka berada tepat di perbatasan hitam dan putih, bagaikan cahaya dan bayangan, siang dan malam, angsa dan kelelawar. Mereka tidak seharusnya bertemu, tidak seharusnya berhubungan baik. Namun, takdir berkata lain. Dalam semalam, hidup Shiraishi Mirei dan Kuraki Kazuma berubah. Ayah Mirei berakhir menjadi mayat dan ayah Kazuma berakhir menjadi pembunuh. Shiraishi Kensuke ditemukan tewas ditik…
Gimana rasanya diputusin setelah berpacaran selama tiga belas tahun? Hidup Gala yang mendadak jomblo semakin runyam ketika adiknya kebelet nikah! Gala bertekad pantang lajang menjelang umur kepala tiga. Bersama ketiga sahabatnya, Nandi, Sydney, dan Detira, strategi pencarian jodoh pun disusun. Darat, udara, bahkan laut "disisir" demi menemukan pria idaman. Akankah Gala berhasil menemukan pasan…
Bagaimana rasanya punya enam orang kakak laki-laki? Merasa dilindungi? Selalu dijaili? Setidaknya itu yang dirasakan Putri Shiori, putri bungsu Kaisar Kiata. Sayangnya, hari-harinya yang riuh bersama keenam kakak lelakinya tak bisa berlangsung lama. Karena sebuah tragedi tak terduga, Raikama, sang ibu tiri menyihir keenam kakak Shiori menjadi bangau. Shiori pun dikutuk nyaris bisu. Jika satu ka…
Dan akhirnya tubuhku berdebam melekat ke dasar laut, di antara kerang dan rumput laut disaksikan serombongan ikan-ikan kecil yang tampaknya iba melihatku. Aku menyadari: aku telah mati. Tubuhku akan berada di dasar laut ini selama-selamanya, dan jiwaku telah melayang entah ke mana. Sementara ikan-ikan biru, kuning, ungu, jingga mencium pipiku; seekor kuda laut melayang-layang di hadapanku, aku …
Patroclus, seorang pangeran muda yang kikuk, diasingkan ke istana Raja Peleus dan putranya yang sempurna, Achilles. Mereka tumbuh menjadi pemuda yang cakap dalam seni perang dan pengobatan, dan kedekatan mereka berkembang menjadi hubungan yang lebih dalam - meski sangat ditentang oleh ibu Achilles, Thetis, dewi laut yang kejam. Lalu tersiar kabar bahwa Helen dari Sparta telah diculik. Bimbang a…
Kisah ini sudah tertinggal puluhan tahun lebih. Maka ibarat seseorang yang ketinggalan kereta, bukan cuma kilau lampu dan getar rel yang telah hilang di tikungan sana, bahkan gerbong dan lokomotifnya sudah karatan dipensiunkan. Cerita ini sudah menguap puluhan tahun lebih. Maka ibarat embun menggelayut malas di daun rumput, rerumputan itu sudah menjadi hutan, tidak tersisa lagi kenangannya. Tet…
Kami menyukai hari-hari di ruang cuci. Kami masuk dalam keadaan kotor dan keluar dengan tangan-tangan yang bersih. Suara-suara pelan memantul di dinding ruang cuci, tapi tidak ada yang perlu bicara karena kata-kata akan ditelan suara mesin yang bergetar menabrak dinding-dinding dan menggilas lantai-lantai. Di dalam ruang cuci, kami ditelan dan ditenggelamkan dan dimuntahkan kembali dengan kotor…