Richard Oh

Ritus adalah sebuah pengitaran di dalam reruntuhan berlingkarnya Borges. Ia seperti sang penyihir di dalam reruntuhan berlingkar itu yang bermimpi membangkitkan seorang pemuda ideal dari mimpinya. Setelah mewujudkan seorang pemuda perkasa dari mimpi itu, sang penyihir mengirimnya ke sebuah reruntuhan berlingkar di belahan selatan. Pada kentongan tengah malam, sang penyihir terjaga dari mimpi dan sadar [...]

To talk about love is akin to bringing up an old sore to which each is to her own pain. (Ecstasy is usually consigned to the false prophets.) Much like talking about a creed, a faith, or a politic. This is so because love is strapped to the point of petrifaction with so many layers [...]

It’s a question often posed to me by foreign writers and scholars, maybe because I speak English or maybe they know me at one time as a bookseller and a publisher of translated works of Indonesian writers. In any case, it’s not an easy question to answer. Most of us thought at first, with the [...]

How often have we heard these refrains from parents about their children’s reading habits? They’re too engrossed with their Wii players to bother with books. Schoolwork has left them no time to curl up in a couch with a book. There are too many video games out there! Too many distractions, cable television programs: MTV, [...]

Nearly two centuries after it was first published in 1817, The History of Java by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, thanks to Narasi, an independent publishing company based in Yogjakarta, is finally brought out in Indonesian language. The Indonesian version of The History of Java is a doorstopper at 904 pages, an agreeable hardbound single volume [...]