AsleepBanana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. A third finds her sleep haunted by another woman whom she was once pitted against in a love

And for most of that decade

Essays in Idleness is a constantly surprising work that ranges across the spectrum of human experience

sakura pun senyum

[Poetry’s] greatest flowering was in the T’ang and Sung

" - Nazirah Lee

By discussing cultural change and ethnic identification of a Chinese Peranakan community in Malaysia

Native American communists and progressive factory owners

learns of Panit

In his penetrating surveys of poetic form and the literary milieu of the day

Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet

Robinson concludes by probing the disturbing long-term consequences of the violence for millions of survivors and Indonesian society as a whole

that redefined notions of human character and fate and opened the way into modernity