Monthly Archives: November 2013

Giving thanks for Doris Lessing

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Muhammad Cohen

No one wrote about the emotional workings of the human mind better than Doris Lessing. Continue reading →

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Ask not what’s happened to America since JFK

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Muhammad Cohen

Everything changed on that sunny day in Dallas 50 years ago. Continue reading →

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Chefs without borders

Posted on November 17, 2013 by Muhammad Cohen

Leading Indonesian and Malaysian chefs show, like good fences, good food makes good neighbors. Continue reading →

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Ubud encounters: Pamuntjak, Lewis live dangerously in novels on 1965 turmoil

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Muhammad Cohen

Two new novels try to pry open the books on Indonesia’s 1965-68 mass killings that remain among the nation’s deepest secrets. Continue reading →

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Ubud encounters: Goenawan Mohamad names, reserves judgment on Indonesia’s ‘next president’

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Muhammad Cohen

Indonesia’s foremost man of letters and so-called conscience of the nation is “watching” presidential frontrunner Joko Widodo but not yet endorsing him. Continue reading →

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