——✧ on indonesian history

• colonial era (portuguese occupation, brief british occupation, dutch occupation)
• pre-independence (including japanese occupation)
• indonesian communism (incl. 1965 massacre)
• new order & reformation (incl. may 1998 riot)

——✧ historical nonfiction

• the doomsday machine, daniel ellsberg: from the leaker of pentagon papers; about the US' nuclear war policy
• a brief history of neoliberalism, david harvey: how and where neoliberalization came from and proliferated on the world stage
• the cia's greatest hits, mark zepezauer
• super imperialism, michael hudson
• the enigma of japanese power, karel van wolferen

——✧ manga

• dorohedoro, hayashida q
• his romance of 500 years, yamanaka hiko
• welcome to the ballroom, takeuchi tomo
• a tropical fish yearns for snow, hagino makoto
• boy meets maria, eguchi kousei
• break the border rebirth of echoes, ayumi
• cocoon entwined, hara yuriko
• hiraeth is the end of the journey, kamatani yuuki

——✧ writers, poets ada limón, carmen maria machado, hanif abdurraqib, kaveh akbar, natalie diaz, louis glück, olga tokarczuk, vladimir nabokov, fyodor dostoevsky, gabriel garcía márquez