The fruit of procrastination is writing Siapa Tahu but less bacot. Will write more regularly again, and hopefully have the mood to write longer shit during the quarter break (sometimes i need to release things in my head into something readable so i don’t forget). Hope it’s useful.

Web Article

• Andrea Long Chu, “On Liking Women”
  Pepe shared this piece to me and it’s a reaaaally good writing on transsexual.
• Daniel Immerwahr, “The Centre Does Not Hold”
  I always like Immerwahr’s writing (he is that great). And this is an exemplary of long book review that strongly, critically engaged with the book. He reviews Jill Lepore’s book These Truths which he calls as the preaching of “liberal gospel.”
• Yulia Kosmka, “Fascism in Translation”
  Who is not curious with the person who translated Mein Kampf?

Books and Journal Articles

• Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns (2010)
  A very recommended book! Personalized stories of the Great Migration reveals a lot about gender relations, family, racism, urban problems, and the search of better life. This book is an example of narrative history works well.
• Aijaz Ahmad, “Orientalism and After: Ambivalence and Cosmopolitan Location in the Work of Edward Said,” Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 27, No. 30 (1992)
  I wish I read this article far earlier. Not in total agreement with Ahmad, but his critique to Said from Marxist perspective is important.

Poem and Fiction

• Czeslaw Milosz, You Who Wronged (1950)
  The Scorpio season spirit is strong.
• Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory (2019)
  The banality and purposelessnes of the working class should get more attention, no?