The arching bamboos poles, ornately decorated, that transform the streets of the island are back. It’s the Galungan and Kuningan season again. penjor are as …

Magic, depravity, spiritual ambition, sensuality, and love ― The Painted Alphabet binds mythic and modern time together in a rich, slyly suggestive novel based on …

There are plenty of holy days in Bali, and they are really more busy days than holidays. words and photos Rio Helmi   The modern …

So what is the view that the “average person” sees in this maelstrom of building and economic boom going on in Bali these days? The …

  by Ibu Kat The River People are getting annoyed. Their domain is the deep ravines that slash Bali’s topography from north to south. These …

By Shelley Kenigsberg Within moments of meeting Sofie Laguna and talking about story, books and writing, I was struck by her deep understanding of and …

Her TED talk has been watched by more than a million people, and now her new autobiography, ‘The Girl With Seven Names’, is introducing people …

Putu Oka Sukanta, an important Indonesia literary figure slated to appear at this year’s Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, started his career writing poetry at 16. …

Every 210 days the Balinese religious holidays of Galungan and Kuningan recur, pegged to the ‘pawukon’ calendar. There has been a lot of conjecture which …

Around the time Julia Roberts was in 2nd grade, David Stuart-Fox started a decades-long research project with Balinese healer Mangku Ketut Liyer. Their friendship opened …