Books by Tom Boellstorff
“It is an academic book and it’s ostensibly about queer Indonesians, but to me it is also the most insightful book about Indonesia the nation-state and Bahasa Indonesia, which is the Indonesian language. Bahasa Indonesia is this amazing discursive invention that from my first day there struck me as faintly amazing, but I wasn’t sure why—until I found this book.” Read more...
Krithika Varagur, Journalist
Interviews where books by Tom Boellstorff were recommended
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The Malay Archipelago
by Alfred Russel Wallace -
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The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia
by Tom Boellstorff -
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Twilight in Jakarta
by Claire Holt and John McGlynn (translators) & Mochtar Lubis -
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Beauty is a Wound
by Annie Tucker (translator) & Eka Kurniawan -
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Rimbaud in Java: The Lost Voyage
by Jamie James
The best books on Indonesia, recommended by Krithika Varagur
The best books on Indonesia, recommended by Krithika Varagur
It’s a beautiful nation of islands with staggering levels of biodiversity. It’s also home to more than a quarter of a billion people, many of them Muslim. And yet, it gets little regular coverage in the western media. Krithika Varagur, journalist and author of The Call, talks us through the books that most inspired and informed her as she reported on Indonesia.
