Written like a confession, the book stole my heart from the first page. It is the story of a communist spy pretending to be a nationalist captain, a man whom shares a blood pledge with one communist and one nationalist and is the product of an Oriental mother and Occidental father, fighting for a communist Vietnam.

In conjunction with the release of Ada Apa Dengan Cinta 2 and National Poetry Day, poet Aan Mansyur has released a poetry book titled Tidak Ada New York Hari Ini (There’s No New York Today).

Growing up in the 90s, I enjoyed watching Free Willy. The movie is about a boy forming a friendship with a killer whale, or orca, named Willy.

Most of us assume we have a basic immutable right to reproduce. That’s why even those who know very little about the world’s most populous country know that its citizens were allowed a maximum of one child per couple.

Author Anthony Doerr takes us back to the pre-World War II era, telling the story of Marie Laure, a beautiful, freckled and blind French girl and Werner Pfennig, a genius German orphan boy with a penchant for technology.

These past few years, the terms “gender equality”, “feminism” and “feminist” have been commonplace not only in the media but also in our day-to-day conversations.