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Ruminations by John McGlynn: Borders
Without translation I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. [The translator] introduces me to the world. Italo Calvino As a youngster, “vacation” was for me an unknown term. Never once in my memory did my parents...
Surat dari Pejompongan: Cerita Anak
Saudara Anu, Apakah masa kecil Saudara bahagia? Jika iya, apa yang membuat Saudara bahagia? Jika tidak, kalau boleh tahu, apa sebabnya? Apa pun jawaban Saudara nanti, saya ingin bersangka baik bahwa ketika kecil Saudara termasuk anak yang bahagia. Salah satu sebabnya...
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...
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%...
Greetings from the Executive Director: February 2021
International Mother-Language Day on February 21 might have gone unnoticed and unreported in Indonesia had it not been for President Joko Widodo who greeted his Facebook followers that day with “Pripun kabare?”—the Javanese (his mother tongue) for “How are you?” He...
Greetings from the Executive Director: January 2021
As if the unsettling pandemic wasn’t enough of a burden, a series of floods, landslides, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions across the country seemed to signal yet another inauspicious new year—one that had initially begun with a nascent sense of optimism. As...