Three words: Indonesian. Feminist. Horror. Do these words excite you? Because they should. Here’s why: avenging Javanese Goddesses, revenant dangdut dancers and fleets of rats populate—or rather spill, scratch and crawl from—the pages of Apple and Knife, Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha’s … [Read more...]
‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read
October 26, 2025 by
Bloodthirsty ghosts, sadistic supercomputers, creepy childhood games ... Mariana Enríquez, Paul Tremblay, Daisy Johnson and others on the tales that kept them up at night Sat 25 Oct 2025 09.00 BST Share 358 Andrew Michael … [Read more...]
Will South-east Asia ever win its first Nobel Prize in literature?
October 21, 2025 by
South-east Asia, with a population of over 700 million, has exactly zero Nobel laureates in literature out of the 122 awarded. Have no worthy writers come out of the region or are the prize’s opaque processes unfair, unadventurous, unenlightened and simply unbothered by a far-flung and variegated … [Read more...]
Mirah from Banda
October 17, 2025 by
We are invited to be immersed in the romanticism of history and stories about Banda, that is the picture that Hanna Rambe wants to show in her writing this time. There are many happy stories, which make us feel like we want to visit the setting of the location being told, but on the other hand, … [Read more...]
Chicken soup, gado gado, beef rendang and more: Indonesian food writer Sri Owen’s favourite recipes from a lifetime in the kitchen
October 12, 2025 by
In Sri Owen’s Indonesian Food, the author tells of going from watching her grandmother prepare dishes in the family’s primitive kitchen to cooking them herself The recipes are divided according to the chapters of her life, and include staple dishes and those for celebrations and special … [Read more...]
