ACT 1 Scene One. Midnight. At the studio. The Maestro, with a white singlet on, wrapped round in sarong, stands before a blank canvas, staring hard. A paint brush in one hand and in another a cigar, whose smoke curls up and evaporates into the cone of light that is cast down from an over-hanging [...]
The Snake Charmer
A Life and Death In Pursuit of Knowledge
By Jamie James
Hyperion
260
The fascination with nature’s most unpredictable beasts has often persuaded some people that they are so well equipped with mastery of their subjects to be in any peril. We have seen, however, with the recent deaths of Steve Irwin, the wild life expert, who [...]
The Romance of K’tut Tantri And Indonesia
By Timothy Lindsey
Equinox
347
Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it. This is the inscription on the opening page of Gabrielle Garcia Marquez’s autobiography Living To Tell the Tale. It was published in 2003. In 1994, Timothy [...]
Membaca di website majalah Inggris, Prospect, di mana dipaparkan 100 Intelektual Dunia (Pramoedya Anta Toer di posisi 95) hasil dari sebuah angket publik, saya menjadi tertarik untuk membuat angket yang sama. Alasan saya untuk membuat angket ini, selain keinginan saya untuk mengetahui lebih dekat siapa saja yang dianggap sebagai pemikir-pemikir kita pada saat ini, juga [...]
A Short History of Nearly Everything
By Bill Bryson
Black Swan, 687 Pages
The idea for the book occurred to Bill Bryson on a long flight over the Pacific when a question popped in his mind. Are the oceans growing more salty or less with time? (He found out in the end that there is as yet a [...]