A New Chapter at The Garden
Yi Sang: Cantonese Heritage Meets Cambodian Soil
Under the soft lights of Yi Sang The Garden in Toul Kork, 170 distinguished guests gathered last Tuesday evening for the unveiling of...
Cambodia's Living Cuisine
Chef Luu Meng
There is a saying in Cambodia that the Khmer people were born of the Naga, the seven-headed serpent of legend who rose from the sea when the gods married a...
The Narrow Road to Phka Romduol
A Japanese brewer, a Cambodian grain, and the long road between them
The brewery sits behind an unmarked door in Boeung Tompun, on the southern edge of Phnom Penh, where...
CHAPTER SIX
Make It New
Ezra Pound and the Lost Generation
London, 1908 — The American Arrives
In February 1908, a twenty-two-year-old from Idaho arrived in Europe with light luggage, a manuscript of poems that had been rejected...
CHAPTER FIVE
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Bsharri
He was born on 6 January 1883, in the village of Bsharri, high in the mountains of what is now Lebanon — then part of the Ottoman Empire's Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate,...
CHAPTER FOUR
The Poet Who Learned to See
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that...
CHAPTER THREE
The Hinge
The Beautiful Era and Its Fractures
First Movement — 1880 to 1902
The Beautiful Unease
The Rue de Rome
On regular evenings in the late 1880s and into the 1890s, a small apartment on the...
CHAPTER TWO
Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire — The Poet Who Made Darkness Beautiful
Before the Beautiful Era
Paris in the first half of the nineteenth century was a medieval city undergoing violent modernisation. Its streets were narrow,...
