I recently read Eka Kurniawan’s novel Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash as if either the book or I were outfitted with afterburners. Vengeance is a comic picaresque that the publisher has likened to a Quentin Tarantino film; Kurniawan’s prose, translated from the Indonesian by Annie Tucker, is … [Read more...]

Last year on my 22nd birthday, I made a list of things I wanted to accomplish before my 23rd birthday. One of those things was to read more Indonesian literature. It has been a great while since the last time I enjoyed reading Indonesian books on a daily basis - the time was around 2nd or 3rd grade. … [Read more...]

Vacation season may have ended, but it’s not too late to continue your travels by reading adventurously and internationally. September is the perfect time to catch up on that book pile that’s been building up all summer, with late August and September releases rounding out work from around the … [Read more...]

Another month has come (and pretty much gone… can someone tell me where August went?), so here we are again with the five books we think you should be reading – should’ve been reading – this month. August’s five selected titles are one for the history lovers, with historical fiction well … [Read more...]