Andy Fuller

Accidentally, a Book is a collection of notes and short essays on reading and reading spaces in Leiden and elsewhere. It is on publishing, translating and styles of writing and the pleasures of bookish materialities. The book incorporates Andy’s drawings of book covers which form a part of the stimulus for the notes and reading practices. “I started making these notes after reading a wonderful and hilarious self-help book: How to Break Up with Your Phone. Instead of opening Strava or WhatsApp, I started to take out my box of 36 coloured pencils and draw the covers of the random books on my shelf. I deliberately tried to avoid any grand plan in devising or framing this apparent-book, but wanted it to be loose and inadvertent – thus, the title, Accidentally, a Book.” The cover and layout is by regular-RSP collaborator Amarawati Ayuningtyas.

Accidentally, a Book

Afrizal Malna

Afrizal Malna sits apart from many of Indonesia's recent poets. Not only is he a productive literary and theater critic, he is a novelists and short story writer as well. In a writing career that has now spanned more than thirty years, Afrizal has published several major collections of poetry. His poems have been translated into Dutch, German, and English, of which this is the first full length collection. Afrizal is concerned with a questioning of language and a bodily engagement with public and private space, things and their connotations and associations. It is through the appearance of everyday objects that Afrizal's poems emerge as a repository of the cultural meanings of space and things in Indonesia's everyday modernity. Afrizal's poems, through drawing on practices of montage, precise diction and curious grammar, maintain a fine balance between consistency of style and variation in theme and subject which asserts his distinctive poetic voice. These are poems that trace the quickly changing urban trajectory of present day Indonesia.

Anxiety Myths

Literary criticism on the works of Seno Gumira Ajidarma, an Indonesian writer.

membaca karya-karya Seno Gumira Ajidarma

Sastra dan politik

National university of Singapore (NUS) ( . Asia research institute (ARI))

three stories by Seno Gumira Ajidarma

Urban sounds

John H. McGlynn

Nur Zain Hae

The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Short Stories is the first definitive anthology in English of Indonesian short stories from the twentieth century. These two volumes, featuring a selection of 109 of the most popular and influential works of short fiction, span the entire century, from pre-Independence Indonesia to the year 2000, and include many new translations. The editors drew from a wide cross section of Indonesian short story writers with respect to ethnicity, gender, class, and ideology. Volume 2 presents 61 stories dating from the founding of the New Order government that followed a national bloodbath in 1965 to just after its end in 1998 and the dawn of the second millennia. Along with the rise of "newspaper-length short stories" and a dwindling focus on realism, this period was marked by numerous changes in style and form, especially in the last decade of the century when authors, concerned with the militaristic nature of the central government, began to adopt a much more direct approach.

Andy Fuller

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