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There’s much more to the country than Bali’s beaches, as these six books demonstrate | The Economist reads

The tropical ‘attitude’ that brings together two regions in rejection of European colonialism

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs

'This book is not easy to pigeonhole in terms of its genre. It is partly social history, partly a biography of a great writer, partly an intellectual adventure story.'

Co-presented with Lapham’s Quarterly, the Brooklyn Public Library’s Second Read series examines Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s The Buru Quartet and the history of its creation, with translator/author Max Lane, playwright Faiza Mardzoeki, author Siddhartha Deb, and scholar Christopher GoGwilt.

Max Lane tells the story of Pramoedya Anannta Toer’s seminal books and his own role in bringing them to the attention of the wider world.

Indonesia is the guest country at the Frankfurt Book Fair this autumn. Just under 70 Indonesian authors will be in Frankfurt to give public readings. Qantara.de introduces seven of them. By Monika Griebeler

endIndex: Southeast Asian myths, postcolonial epics, and a massive yet engaging story about foolish English magicians. Photos by JL JAVIER Reading Life is a monthly column where writers talk about the books theyve read — good or bad. Like many of you, I had hoped that the insane amount of indoor time during the pandemic would mean that my tsundoku pile would finally shrink and my small bedroom would finally be free of some books. Alas, it was not quite. The pandemic has affected the way we ...