The Answer Is Always Yes / Liberation Records On her excellent third album, Alex Lahey saves the title track, and the best one, for the last. For the first time, Lahey collaborates with other songwriters and producers and results in a more subdued and less grungy record. But even so, her story is still front …
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Trigger warning: suicide, self-harm I considered to end my life in the beginning of 2022. Well, that is a strong sentence to start a year-end book list that's supposed to be anodyne. But, that's the reality and I'm so much relieved that I can pass through those dark days without barely scratch. The new year …
Let's begin by saying staying alive in 2021 itself is already such an achievement. So please pat your own back and applaud yourselves because you have made it through another shitty year amid the quarantine and the worsening COVID-19 situation. It's been two years since the first case in Wuhan, and we still haven't seen …
2021 passes by fast and its days feel blurry. Part of it is because in this year, we're still living through the COVID-19 pandemic where apparently we can't see the light at the end of its tunnel, thanks to white people's entitlement, people's reluctance to be vaccinated, and the new variant of Omicron. But let's …
Curating a list called 100 Books You Should Read is such a pompous thing to do because reading is a personal experience. And who am I to tell you which books you should or shouldn't read. In that case, let's just see that the 100 Books You Should Read is just another list of books …
For Those I Love / September Recordings Death, according to Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum on his gut-wrenching 2017's "Real Death", is "not for singing about", but what he means is not in literal sense. When death takes our loved ones away, everything doesn't seem to matter anymore. You will be so consumed by grief that …
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I scan the interior of Spinasse as Jeff ponies up the tab. The restaurant’s furniture is rustic, offering an authentic Piedmont experience, complete with large and modern open kitchen that looks out of place. The wonderful aroma of prosciutto—which I finished a while ago and can’t get enough of—wafts out of it, while Stuart, the …
Artikel ini pernah dimuat di Jurnal Ruang dengan judul yang berbeda. Pada salah satu halaman dalam buku Antologi Rasa, Keara—tokoh utama dalam buku ini—berandai-andai akan ada orang yang menjadikan kisah cintanya, Ruly, dan Harris sebagai sebuah film yang mungkin akan disutradarai oleh para sutradara ternama, baik yang sudah wafat (entah bagaimana caranya) maupun yang masih …
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Artikel ini pernah dimuat di Jurnal Ruang. Bagi Jenny Han, representasi Asia Amerika di media sangatlah penting. Ketika ia besar, buku-buku favoritnya ditulis oleh wanita-wanita kulit putih yang elegan: Ann M. Martin, E.L. Konigsburg, Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, atau Lois Lowry. Ia seakan tidak memiliki sosok penulis anutan yang karya-karyanya memuat budaya yang terhubung dengan …
Graphic design is my passion I have to admit that it’s a privilege to be able to read leisurely and not to think about your job and health during this pandemic. So of course, it’s not my place to boast my achievement of reading more than three hundred books this year, almost four times more …
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