Meddy Chan works for her family’s event company, which specializes in wedding services like hair styling, make-up, cakes, flowers, musical entertainment, and photography. For the upcoming Tom Cruise Sutopo / Jacqueline Wijaya wedding, Meddy also provides a dead body. Jesse Q Sutanto’s entertaining … [Read more...]

In the ten years since I set out to read the world, I have interacted with thousands of book lovers, writers, academics and curious readers around the globe. Many of the most illuminating of these discussions have been with translators – people who, by virtue of having expertise in two or more … [Read more...]

Reviewed by BROOK EMERY         What are my credentials, or lack thereof, to review these two anthologies of women’s poetry?   Despite an androgynous first name, I am a sliced-white-bread, baby-boomer male. Husband not wife. Father not mother. I am also … [Read more...]

Jakarta, the city I used to call home for over a decade, is now out of reach for me. I have struggled with homesickness ever since I – voluntarily – relocated to Berlin in March 2018, but this feeling was amplified over the last year: since the pandemic took hold of our lives, getting on an airplane … [Read more...]

What is it about? Chinese-Indonesian, US-based Meddelin Chan finds herself in an impossible situation: after she accidentally kills her blind date in self-defense, her mother brings in reinforcements to help get rid of the body: her three sisters, Meddie’s aunties. But how can they cover up a … [Read more...]