In 2024, for about a year, I got caught up in French and English academic journals as additional sources to prepare myself for earning a DELF B2 certificate and a bachelor degree. At the beginning of the year, I befriended bunch of French grammatical books and our relationship went very well to the … [Read more...]
Failed by Love and Life: How “Olenka” by Budi Darma Became My Favorite Read This Year
March 3, 2026 by
Delay: A Comics Anthology, edited by Charis Loke and Paolo Chikiamco
February 26, 2026 by
T ime is one of the grand themes of literature and art. A new comics anthology, Delay, brings together 11 pieces of graphic fiction in the short form from various Southeast Asian artists including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, and connects the concept of time to such … [Read more...]
“Borneo: The History of an Enigma” by Olivier Hein
February 8, 2026 by
A book that attempts to tell the story of one of the world’s largest and most complex islands across vast spans of time—from deep geological history to the urgent pressures of the present—Olivier Hein’s Borneo: The History of an Enigma announces its ambition from the first pages. Such scale is … [Read more...]
