Reading Recommendations
Book Reviews
Five Books on Indonesia
I recently spent two months on Bali and read many books on Indonesia. Here are five books on the region I recommend.
Sidle Creek
Jolene McIlwain writes about cruelty without glorifying it or using it gratuitously. My full review essay appeared on CRAFT: “Beyond Binary Thinking: Writing Cruelty Without Inflicting Harm.”
Korean Literature in Translation
In preparation for my stay at the Toji Cultural Center, I dove into the diverse world of Korean literature in translation. From Han Kang to Pak Kyongni.
A World Beyond Cardboard
Jonathan Cardew’s collection of twelve tales, is both an honest and an ironic dive into our humanity. In the marvelous title story, this ambiguity is obvious from the first sentence: “Mum died so dad took us on a holiday to…
Fragile Saints
Claire Ibarra’s Fragile Saints is a captivating novel about heritage and injustices of the past that will take you to Peru.
End of the World House
What lines of communication might reveal themselves to us when the world comes to an end? How will we navigate our alternative lives if such lives are rendered possible? Can intimacies survive a separation in time and space? Such were…
