Familiar Messes and other essays

“I found solace in nothing. Because everything was temporary. And days flew by like heavy cigarette smoke floating above the dancing heads in the city’s most notorious club, like speech bubbles written in a language you cannot understand, like a dragon’s breath you keep chasing, like pills that move … [Read more...]

I am My Own Home and other essays

What is it about male aloneness that makes it so desirable while female aloneness is seen as less so? What is it about male aloneness that is often seen as a heroic and poetic choice, while female aloneness is generally seen to have come from a lack of options? I am My Own Home is a documentation … [Read more...]

Hotel Tua

Hotel Tua comprises 18 Budi Darma’s short stories dating from the 70s to the first decade of 2000s. … [Read more...]

Rainbow: 18 Indonesian Women Poets

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Rootless Black Roses

This novel, set in West Papua's accurate historical and political context, weaves together the narratives of one family to provide a compelling picture of West Papuans' experiences under Indonesian oppression. … [Read more...]

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