Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Subjects & Themes - Politics

This book is dedicated to the millions of people who get fucked over by the government every day. We the people no longer believe in Democrats vs. Republican, Black vs. White, Men Vs. Women, Muslims vs. Christians and the lesser of two evils. This book is dedicated to the people who are waking up to the fact that it is the 1% against the 99%

Earth Breath: Selected Blogs, 2009-2016, is a collection of 60 blogs chosen from a dozen years of blogging on my blogsite, distasiblog.blogspot.com. Unlike many others, my blogs range through a wide variety of subjects, usually responding to contemporary events or books I've read, or the impulse of the moment. Many are political, but many are not. Their overall tenor tends to be critical of current trends and attitudes that I find silly or hypocritical, retrograde or harmful. They also tend to be more carefully crafted than most blogs and more in the nature of little...

Goenawan Mohamad is one of Indonesia's foremost public intellectuals, and this translated volume of essays--spanning from 1968 to the present day--demonstrates the breadth of his perceptive and elegant commentary on literature, faith, mythology, politics, and history.

Through the worst days of Indonesia's authoritarianism, in the face of the trauma of great violence and the chaos of democratic transition, Goenawan has never lost faith in the act of writing. Many of his...

Most of these columns appeared in the weekly Sparks Tribune and the Reno News & Review. Thanks to both papers for courageously publishing columns and articles that no other newspaper or magazine would have printed.

Oscar Wilde, one of my all-time favorite people in history. Brilliant, witty, wise. Epigramist. Versatile: playwright, short-story writer, novelist, poet, social critic, essayist and book reviewer. Marvelous conversationalist. Classicist. Scholar. Dandy. Esthete. Humanist.
Oscar Wilde, one of the greatest multi-faced geniuses ever to grace the Earth.
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