新生事物春满园 妇女顶起半边天
The Garden is full of new things/Women hold up half the sky
A collection of essays exploring literature, philosophy, and contemporary culture.
This book is often recommended as a historical primer of US imperialism. A lot of it is history, which I’ve condensed into a couple of important sections here. There are not many annotations as it’s ...
A few weeks ago I finished reading Comrade Lenin’s analysis on the State. What is the State, why does it wither away, what should the State look like after the revolution. He answers everything here and puts it into practice in the 1917 Revolution.
On a beige cream wall: Five cast iron pans stuck to the wall like pizzas on a wood-fired oven flipped ninety degrees. The middle pan had a black cable connected to it, desperate to be noticed, running into a mundane power socket near the floor. Near the pan was an inscription in German and English: Achtung! Hot, do not touch.
"To speak of the Palestinians rationally is, I think, to stop speaking about war or genocide and to start to deal seriously with political reality. There is a Palestinian people, there is an Israeli occupation o f Palestinian lands, there are Palestinians under Israeli military occupation, there are Palestinians— 650,000 of them— who are Israeli citizens and who constitute 15 percent of the population of Israel, there is a large Palestinian population in exile: these are actualities which the United States and most of the world have directly or indirectly acknowledged, which Israel too has acknowledged, if only in the forms of denial, rejection, threats of war, and- punishment."
I remember when I first went to the Projector. I was with my friends walking along down Geylang Road after eating Vietnamese food at Grandlink Square. I was 17. The sun was baking me with a constant l...
Yesterday I dropped by the Peninsular Mall basement to drop off my guitar for servicing. The place has remained largely unchanged for the last 10 years. Same shops with gundam and doraemon electric gu...
This is not an academic review or analysis. I am not trained in polsci. I’m writing this summary to internalise and ask myself questions about this book. I am publishing this online because I believe ...
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The following is an excerpt from European Boredom Diary by Juzo Itami, translated by me. Juzo Itami was a pioneering Japanese filmmaker who blended biting social commentary with humour. He is best kno...
Four decades past its release, Taxi Driver’s gun-toting, Mohawk-sporting, aviator-wearing protagonist Travis Bickle is as iconic as ever. The opening scene introduces Travis as a war veteran. He tells...
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
The beauty of Kokoro isn’t in what Souseki writes, it’s what he leaves out.
Roma was the first movie in a long time to make me sob uncontrollably! It’s one of those times I’m glad I’m not a film critic. I’m just a fan of movies. Which gives me the license to gush about this m...
Battle Royale. Even if you haven’t watched it, you’ve definitely heard of it. If not because of The Hunger Games, maybe from the game series Danganronpa? Or the entire genre of video games named after...
“That’s ridiculous!”
“John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works. In this practical, instructive handbook, based on the courses and seminars that he gave, he explains, s...