Is This What Other Women Feel Too?

Is This What Other Women Feel Too?June Akers Seese's second novel is about books and the people who read them: it's about a rare book dealer and his mistress, set in that era when words like "mistress" were still used, and recalling the years when Lenny Bruce, Edith Piaf, and Freud might share the same paragraph in an after hours night spot. Seese writes movingly, tightly, without recourse to adjectives, from the gut and to the gut.

by which alone human destinies can be made intelligible

Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866

the third and final volume of Antonio Di Benedetto’s Trilogy of Expectation

But also: truth

Dalam kecapi satu kejayaan besar

and was ignorant of most literature

Zaha Hadid

The most accomplished and accessible entrypoint into Butler’s hypnotic

trying to divine the essence of intimacy

as he promises at the outset

each chapter includes illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook

Datuk Prof Emeritus Ahmat Adam highlights references to the keris and other weapons in classic Malay literature