Reading Life: A doorstop and looking for Southeast Asia in books
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 they've 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 read, and along with the numerous cultural shifts that happened, there was a reckoning to be had wi...