Scores of literature enthusiasts and artists crowded the newly renovated hall of Aksara bookstore in Kemang, South Jakarta, on Saturday evening as the retailer celebrated its recent collaboration with Post Santa Bookshop, also based in South Jakarta, to focus on alternative literature and serve as a … [Read more...]
Dee Lestari, Hanif Kureishi among speakers at upcoming UWRF
August 7, 2018 by
Bali's 2018 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced its line up of speakers, which, among others, features writer Dewi "Dee" Lestari, often touted as a pioneer of modern Indonesian literature, and Balinese litterateur behind the Kelas Cerpen Kompas (Kompas Short Story Class), Putu … [Read more...]
Notes from Sydney
August 4, 2018 by
I returned to Sydney after attending most of the splendid 'Poetry and the Trace' conference, convened by Monash University, and involving the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies together with the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research. It was a pioneering conference, in … [Read more...]
Bumi Langit [R]evolusi: Bringing back local superheroes
July 24, 2018 by
If you spent your childhood in the 1990s, you might be familiar with soap opera series Si Buta dari Goa Hantu (The Blind Man from the Ghost Cave), which was about a blind martial artist Barda Mandrawata, who travels with a monkey on his shoulder to quell crime and violence as well as to avenge the … [Read more...]
