"For example, in Catur Harimau and Catur Perang, I interviewed elderly individuals in villages in Aceh and West Sumatra ... Hasanuddin's Malay chess set includes a history book, gameplay ...

The New York Historical honor goes to Randall K. Wilson, whose “A Place Called Yellowstone” chronicles a landscape “capable ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

It is an amazing community.” Here are five books we recommend checking out and the real-life history behind them. What’s it’s about: This novel follows Jessie Redmon Fauset, a high school ...

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...

Annabel Teh Gallop is Head of the Southeast Asia Section at the British Library.

People in the Indonesian province of Aceh have paid tribute to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan on the 14th anniversary of the disaster. The province has been ...

This is Naipaulesque writing. With its wide scope and rigorous attention to detail, The Village of One might well be the most discerning history book about modern T&T, and undoubtedly the best ...

year ago, I went to Aceh to interview women survivors of sexual ... power of the military’s dual function in the past; now history looks set to repeat itself. When it comes into effect, the ...

including books, television, video games, and theater, and pairs these previously published essays with two new ones about the history of criticism and the current state of the art form.

Spring is just around the corner. As the days get longer, you’ll want to spend those extra hours of sunlight with a good book. This month’s must-reads include astronaut and activist Amanda ...

The video, filmed by bystanders outside the Kutacane Penitentiary in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh Province earlier this month, shows prisoners – some barefoot and clothed only in shorts ...