Yang Tak Kunjung Usai
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A Tinderbox in Three Acts
November 12, 2022 by
Selected by Aracelis Girmay, A Tinderbox in Three Acts is at once elegy and exegesis, fact and invention. In her fourth poetry collection, Cynthia Dewi Oka performs a lyric accounting of the anti-Communist genocide of 1965, which, led by the Indonesian military and with American assistance, … [Read more...]
Burung Kayu
October 9, 2022 by
An ethnographic novel. The novel starts with the personal affairs and a personal conflict leading to a bigger conflict between two groups of people. The issues about Mentawai customs on marriage, living along with their battle with modernism are scattered throughout the book. The purpose of the … [Read more...]