SVARA Isu 17 | Pendeta Dari BogorJurnal Svara ialah sebuah penerbitan berkala di Malaysia yang memberi tumpuan kepada perihal budaya. Diterbitkan 4 kali setahun, setiap isu memuatkan esei esei panjang, cerpen dan sajak daripada pelbagai penulis meliputi hal hal berkaitan kritik sastera, filem, muzik, wawancara dan lain lain. Ini kali pertama Svara memusatkan tumpuan hanya kepada tiga orang tokoh sahaja, sebagai teras kandungan bagi edisi ke 17 ini. Hanya tiga orang, dengan sorotan

Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figures — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Penelope Lively trains her gardening eye on her gardens past and present

goes on trips to the supermarket

she shows how we can work to promote public space protection and expansion at both the grassroots and global levels

any attempt to tackle the question of rationality or irrationality of economic science and of economic realities from the angle of an a priori idea

Gregory Crewdson

as the poet Marilyn Hacker has said

providing inspired close readings of Keats

and lays bare how she nourished both body and soul in working with books

Those exercised by the discussion and debates around Singapore's 2019 Bicentennial should know that the question was considered at length nearly 50 years ago

in a time of crisis

and the scope of the day widens further