Every apocalypse needs its own theme song, and writer and radio maker Belinda Lopez has chosen Cielito Lindo […]
Category: Essays
Published in the Sydney Morning Herald.
For Meanjin
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Published in The Guardian.
Totalitarian Nostalgia and How to Get Travel All Wrong. In Kill Your Darlings, No. 17 (Paywall). […]
Published in the Sydney Morning Herald. My grandparents were boat people. Not asylum seekers, specifically, but they did […]
The Haunted Generations: History Lessons in Spain Each month, Kill Your Darlings publishes ‘Notes From’, a series designed to illuminate the […]
Published in the Jakarta Post Weekender magazine.
Indonesia’s Maluku archipelago, famed for its historical attractions and natural beauty, was struck off tourist itineraries during the religious strife of the late 1990s. Belinda Lopez visited some of the islands to see the changes taking place.
Picking one of Maluku’s estimated 999 islands to visit can be a risky affair. Over near Banda Neira Island, an active 650-meter-high volcano on the appropriately named Gunung Api (Fire Mountain) Island only just blew her lid in 1988.
In Ternate, North Maluku, it’s best to stay away from civil servants, especially if you’re a state prosecutor. One poor prosecutor is reportedly recovering from a blow to the head after he tried to find evidence of graft in the North Maluku governor’s office and the staff allegedly jumped him.