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From Roy to Loewenstein: Books as witnesses to memory and power
Across personal memory, cultural history and global conflict, several books published in 2025 continue to illuminate how power shapes lives and narratives.
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‘Reflections’: A meditation on Singapore’s regional resilience
Through his collection of essays, author and professor Barry Desker shows how technocratic governance and quiet diplomacy have sustained the island state’s resilience and its enduring, often overlooked ties with Indonesia. ...
2 months ago
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As world burns, Amitav Ghosh writes for the future
But his recent work focuses on what he considers the most urgent concern: the accelerating unravelling of the natural world and the moral legacy left for the future. ...
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Marriages in India: The changing dynamics
American journalist Elizabeth Flock’s first book, Love and Marriage in Mumbai, is a powerful nonfiction narrative on three marriages in a modern India that is undergoing massive social change.
7 years ago
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'Whisper/ROAR': A culmination of 25 years in fashion
The glamorous world of fashion is inseparable from the life of designer Sebastian Gunawan. Likewise, Sebastian has been a constant fixture on the Indonesian fashion scene.
7 years ago
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‘Kartini Blue Bird: The Spirit of Emak-Emak’ puts drivers' wives in spotlight
Taxi company Blue Bird Group launched Kartini Blue Bird: The Spirit of Emak-Emak on May 11.
7 years ago
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Goodbye, Columbus: A look into the dwindling world of rare books
No one can predict which genres or authors will trend in the near future, but keep in mind that for a book to be collectible and or rare it does not necessarily have to be old.
7 years ago
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Book Review: 'Social Creature', a deathly tale in the Instagram age
The book might seem like a hybrid of Gossip Girl and Gone Girl at glance, but Burton makes the story work on every level.
7 years ago
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Polish novelist wins Man Booker International Prize
An English translation of Polish novel "Flights", which interweaves narratives of travel with explorations of the human body, was on Tuesday named as the winner of the prestigious Man Booker International Prize.
7 years ago
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Harry Potter casts new spell over Bloomsbury book sales
Harry Potter special editions helped Bloomsbury’s revenue to its highest level since 2007, when the last of the original books came out, lifting the publisher’s shares to a 10-year high.
7 years ago
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Endang Moerdopo: Her journey as a dancer and storyteller
Aceh has become a source of inspiration for this author.
7 years ago
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Pos Indonesia encourages book donations via postal service
Up to 25,580 books have been distributed through post offices to taman baca masyarakat (community libraries) across the country as of April this year.
7 years ago
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Books and millennials: Do we still read for leisure?
Millennials are often stereotyped as a generation glued to their screens. Are books still relevant to this generation?
7 years ago
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'Chinese Whispers': In search of identity in tragedy, history
While Chinese Whispers is primarily an account of Rani’s childhood in the days leading up to the riots, it also discusses the political and social context of the racial tensions, which had started during Dutch occupation.
7 years ago
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Laksmi Pamuntjak's passion for all things culinary
The Birdwoman’s Palate, the English translation to Laksmi’s novel Aruna & Lidahnya ( 2014 ), was published in January this year.
7 years ago
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Herlina Markus: Last guardian of Bandung's legendary comic store
Despite her children’s repeated requests to shut down her Maranatha comic store in Bandung, West Java, Herlina Markus is staying true to her heart, patiently waiting for comic book lovers to discover the legendary wayang comic books that propelled the place to popularity in the 1960s.
7 years ago
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Book Review: ‘We Come Apart’, friendship in the unlikeliest of situations
In incorporating various themes, namely child abuse, racism, immigration, arranged marriage and bullying, We Come Apart is an emotional roller coaster in the form of a verse book.
7 years ago
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Footsteps in the sand of an emerging nation
As head of the Consultative Body for Indonesian Citizenship (Baperki), a leftist organization whose members were largely Chinese Indonesians, Tjhan was suspected of supporting the G30S.
7 years ago
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Collective memoir highlights Indonesia's ethnic Chinese issues
The book is a collection of voluntary narrations by 73 writers from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds about the ethnic Chinese community in Indonesia.
7 years ago
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Writers' Series discusses storytelling with a human side
This year, the theme was “The Story of Us”, and each speaker discussed his or her own stories on a number of different topics.
7 years ago
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Japanese manga strip fetches record price at Paris auction
A rare series of sketches of Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka's robot character Astro Boy sold for a record 269,400 euros in an auction in Paris Saturday.
7 years ago
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Remembering the author of 'Sie Jin Kui'
Comics lovers certainly remember Siauw Tik Kwie, a household name for Sie Djin Koei, the illustrated story appearing on Star Weekly, Indonesia’s family magazine of the 1950 and 1960s.
7 years ago
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Journalist turns tales of undercover reporting, love in Papua into novel
In 2015, Rohan's application for a journalistic visa was denied. The 32-year-old then decided to embark on an undercover reporting assignment in Papua.
7 years ago
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Was the best art in the world destroyed before we were born?
Noah Charney, the author of the new book 'The Museum of Lost Art' is less interested in all the art we have and preoccupied instead with the art that’s been lost.
7 years ago
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Indonesian books win awards at Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair 2018
Among the three books Hujan Bulan Juni (Rain in June) by Sapardi Djoko Damono, published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama, was awarded the best compilation book award.
7 years ago
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Book fair: A feast of books, arts and ideas
The week-long Abu Dhabi International Book Fair strives to be a hub for the exchange of ideas, arts and culture as well as literacy promotion.
7 years ago
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Ben Loory: Tales so peculiar and fascinating
Short fiction writer Ben Loory has the amazing ability to effortlessly weave words into beautiful sentences to write stories ever so engrossing and enchanting.
7 years ago
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Book Review: Dissecting OJK's challenges
The year 2018 is one of fierce competition in financial services, especially for banks, hedge funds and insurance companies.
7 years ago
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Top five young adult books for your reading list
Everyone loves to read a good book once in a while. Welcoming the month of May with National Book Day falling on the 17th, curling up on the sofa and reading a book seems like a cozy prospect.
7 years ago
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Indonesia brings 1,000 titles to Kuala Lumpur book fair
Indonesia is currently participating in the 37th installment of the Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair (KLIBF) at the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
7 years ago
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'Winds of Winter' not coming in 2018, 'Thrones' author Martin says
Winter is not coming, author George R.R. Martin said on Wednesday, disappointing “Game of Thrones” fans who have been waiting since 2011 for his next book in the epic saga.
7 years ago
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Interview: Madeline Miller, turning the camera to female in classics
The Jakarta Post talks to Madeline Miller about her newest book, women in classic stories and plans for future work.
7 years ago
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The mind-numbing greatness of Pramoedya Ananta Toer
An exhibition celebrating the life of Indonesia’s most-venerated writer, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, is a love letter not only to the man but his readers and family as well.
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