A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married, famous artist. A middle-aged woman struggles with the decline of her mother, once glamorous and still commanding; their fraught relationship causes unexpected feelings, both shaming and brutal. A man finds that his father has died while in the midst of extra-marital sex and wonders what he should do with the body.
At 60 and with a diagnosis of early Alzheimer's, Adria Ardevol re-examines his life before his memory is systematically deleted. He recalls a loveless childhood where the family antique business and his father's study becomes the centre of his world. His mother, a cold, distant, and pragmatic woman leaves him to his solitary games. An accident ends the life of his enigmatic father, filling Adria's world with guilt, secrets, and deeply troubling mysteries. Ambitious, powerful and deeply-moving.
黃涵榆 is the professor of English Department of National Taiwan Normal University. This collection contains her speech scripts and seminar papers which aims at the subjects such as “Biopolitics”, “Archive and Witness”, “Fears and Terror” and “Justice” etc. By using contemporary western theories and combining with the “traditional” anthropology, political science, sociology and history, the author inspects the history of Taiwan, as well as nowadays social and political events which are just the contexts we are involved in.
Founded in 1996, Assignment Theatre is among the very few in Taiwan which employ the approach of People’s Theatre and put the training into practice. Always basing its material on real social issues, the company explores the aesthetics of performance in modern theatre by weaving in local histories and life experiences.
A daring, kaleidoscopic Fiction about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth century between the radical Italian artist Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, played with a ball made from the hair of the beheaded Anne Boleyn.
The three officers in rangers uniform and the CIA agent thoroughly checked the backpack. In the end they could only extract a meager booty: 12 rolls of film, a score of maps corrected with colored pencils, a portable radio that had not worked for a long time, a couple of diaries and a green notebook.
Adonis? influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot in the English-speaking world. Yet alongside this spearheading of a modernist literary revolution, the secular Syrian-born poet is also renowned for his persistent and staunch attacks on despotism across the Arab world.
