The 12th Karachi Literature Festival was a digital event with audiences forced to take part only from their homes. But it still
Published 04 Apr, 2021 06:57am
A debut novel that shows promise when focusing on the human condition rather than on clichéd themes of drug-running...
Published 11 Oct, 2020 07:01am
A shape-shifting novel traverses band culture, sociology and politics to paint a sprawling picture of the United States over...
Updated 17 Aug, 2020 12:03pm
A travelogue from the Western Sahara, now translated into English, tells of a Taiwanese woman longing to escape her
Published 08 Mar, 2020 08:26am
The turnout at this year’s festival was significantly lower than last year’s inaugural event, but its significance...
Updated 09 Feb, 2020 10:59am
Zadie Smith’s first short story collection occupies a remote corner of a universe in which conventional notions of time
Published 10 Nov, 2019 06:57am
Accessible from Karachi, but in the middle of nowhere, stands a fort that defends nothing. Who built it and why?
Updated 05 Feb, 2017 01:46pm
Karachi Theosophical Society has been around since 1896 but finds itself searching for younger members and renewed
Updated 12 Dec, 2016 10:44am
Richard Linklater’s latest film brings together the personal themes of many of his past films
Updated 04 Dec, 2016 09:23am
