Ruminations by John McGlynn: Jigsaw

I never knew my maternal grandfather, Hubert Schauf. He was out in a field on Lost Hill Farm, when a massive heart attack took his life in 1949, three years before I was born. The only confabulistic memory I have of my paternal grandfather, John A. McGlynn Sr., is...

Surat dari Pejompongan: Serem

Serem Saudara Anu, Untuk memahami bagaimana siasat terhadap realisme berlangsung dalam prosa Indonesia, ada baiknya kita membaca lagi karya-karya Rijono Pratikto—sebelum kita sampai pada yang canggih-canggih. Mungkin hari ini banyak dari kita yang tidak mengenal...

In Memoriam

Wikan Satriati 23 June 1975 – 25 April 2021 Wikan, a writer and a colleague at Lontar, passed away recently, and we deeply mourn her loss. In more than a decade of dedication to the translation and publication of books by Indonesian authors, she contributed...

Greetings from the Executive Director: April 2021

First the sad news… We recently lost our friend and colleague Wikan Satriati, who had worked at Lontar for the past 11 years as assistant to the director of publications, managing everything from contracts to book launches. She passed away at her family home in...

Greetings from the Executive Director: March 2021

One year after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, any semblance of normalcy remains far from the case in Indonesia, despite the reduced rate of Corona virus infections and deaths around the country. In June of last year the National Covid-19 Task Force classified 58%...