Berita Gunung Berapi

In 1952, the Volcanological Survey of Indonesia published the Berita Gunung Berapi (Volcano News) amidst a condition of near civil war. Indonesia’s first president and revolutionary hero, Soekarno, was struggling to hold the fledgling Republic together. Factions of guerrilla armies and separatist movements were taking up arms to establish their own mini-states. Parts of west […]

Accidentally, a Book

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 […]