Richard Oh

The Tent By Margaret Atwood 155 Pages Bloomsbury If you were a multiple award-winning author and in between a serious book project, what would you do? Under the pressure from your publisher, you’d publish stuff that might in all likelihood be consigned to oblivion in one of your drawers. Stuff you desultorily jotted down on [...]

Everyman By Philip Roth Jonathan Cape 182 Pages Philip Roth is probably the most self-obsessed author you would come across in literature. For a period of time, he wrote about nothing else but himself, a Jewish boy from New Jersey, putting himself in characters such as Zuckermann or Roth, through trials and tribulations of the [...]

The Romance of K’tut Tantri And Indonesia By Timothy Lindsey Equinox 347 Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it. This is the inscription on the opening page of Gabrielle Garcia Marquez’s autobiography Living To Tell the Tale. It was published in 2003. [...]

Nineteen the untold tales of street vendors Text by Irfan Kortschak Photography by Josh Estey MercyCorps 201 pages They prevail all over the landscapes in Jakarta. They are so prevalent, fitting into every frame of the cityscape; we don’t see them at all. They’re the invisible people of Jakarta. They are by no means marginal [...]

I’ve always dreaded traveling. Don’t get me wrong though. I’m not some larded ass who prefers the familiarity of one place to another or some loon with a developed case of phobia for strangers. I’m way more ahead than any one of these fellows. I love the tingling serenity of the cabin, peering out through [...]