The LLF, as always, had a diverse and eclectic array of topics under discussion this year...

On his way to the seafront, he found a bookshop. Instinctively, he entered and picked up a book by Jean Paul Sartre. “He though...

Seventy five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, English readers get an extraordinary account of life in a concentration...

An important Australian novel, set in the gruesome world of Sydney in the 1700s, attempts to come to terms with the monstros...

Elif Shafak’s long essay in the shape of a booklet, ponders the big issues of the times, which trouble people around the world...

Seeking a metaphor to describe Ghalib, we must recognise that he himself is its superb craftsman...

Barack Obama reflects on his and America’s journey during his presidential tenure, in the first part of a two-volume memoir...

A celebrated writer’s sophomore novel may be much more modest in scope than her debut, but is equally ambitious in its premi...

A limited-edition, handsome monograph on Pakistani artist Ayessha Quraishi serves as a semi-scholarly documentation that...

Somewhere towards the end of the first decade of this century, I came upon a review, in the pages of Dawn, of a book...

A compelling and lucid memoir of a Pakistani British man’s coming to terms with his sexuality could be a game-changer...

A debut novel set in Lahore and New York and focused on the plight of the marginalised in Pakistan shows future promise even...

A new book by a veteran scholar connects political economist Karl Marx’s thoughts from his early years to his later writings...

Ebola is a viral infection which causes haemorrhagic fever. Though rare, it has been devastating in west, central ...

A well-researched treatise argues for the need to take the threat of scientific racism seriously...

Nasir Abbas Nayyar’s fourth collection of short stories showcases the writer’s scholarliness, creativity and fertile mind...

A sequel book by a music aficionado provides insight into the life and work of 35 more film playback singers from the Subcont...

A critical, informative and argumentative collection of essays on the changing face of media in Pakistan...

Our writers find it easier to convey thoughts and ideas in their prose, but struggle when the feelings and emotions are to be...

Gen Yahya Khan was at the helm of state and the army when Pakistan was torn asunder in 1971...