Indiana Anomie: Budi Darma’s People from Bloomington
a portrait of the American tendency to keep the suffering of others at arm’s length as if misfortune were contagious, or to ruthlessly eliminate it entirely
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...moreCynthia Dewi Oka discusses her new collection, FIRE IS NOT A COUNTRY.
...moreJoel Mowdy discusses his debut story collection, FLOYD HARBOR.
...moreConfession: I’m a Hindu who loves Christmas.
...moreWhy would I ask for my sanity from the Devil as I sleep walk, only to give it up again to the Holy Spirit?
...moreI am alone. Alone with my small size, my cracking bones, and the guilt that wraps around my spine like a jungle vine. Don’t be hysterical, I repeat to myself.
...moreRidwan Sururi had a horse. Indonesia’s small mountain towns needed a library. Now, several days a week he loads up his horse with books and travels from town to town, earning him the name “the Don Quixote of literacy.”
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