FICTION: MIGRATIONS AND OTHER SEPARATIONS
Aamer Hussein’s first book of Urdu stories sustains his lifelong engagement of writing about the life of the other with aesthetic, narrative and ethical care...
POETRY: JEWELS FROM FORGOTTEN PERSIAN POETRY
Afzal Ahmed Syed has done great service to our literary heritage by excavating and translating vintage couplets from often unfairly dismissed poets...
NON-FICTION: THE ROOTS OF TURMOIL
Former BBC and FT correspondent Kim Ghattas traces the current problems of the Middle East to three key events from 1979...
COLUMN: TOURIST ATTACKS
Tourism is one of the industries hit hardest by this coronavirus pandemic. Experts predict that foreign travel may...
NON-FICTION: FANTASTIC VOYAGE
An award-winning author writes an accessible and entertaining book, chock-full of facts and historical...
NON-FICTION: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
A sociologist looks at the common problems faced by women in Pakistani society and shines a light...
NON-FICTION: MORE THAN FIGURES
An important contribution to Pakistan’s cultural history, a new book is more than a simple documentation of historic architecture
COLUMN: THE DECAY OF LANGUAGE
Prof Navid Shahzad has recently recalled in one of her writings what George Orwell said soon after the Second World...
NON-FICTION: THE BATTLE OVER SUFISM
Nadeem F. Paracha attempts to trace the evolution of Sufism in Pakistan and how its appeal has often been used by...
FICTION: PEOPLE LIVING IN GLASS HOTELS...
A Ponzi scheme and the existential anxieties of rudderless, privileged North Americans, propel...
NON-FICTION: THE QUARANTINE OF THE HAZARAS
A book looks at the plight of Quetta’s Hazara community through untold and seemingly incomplete stories
COLUMN: THE 'RESTLESS HEART'
In this grim atmosphere of a worldwide pandemic and the numbing effect of lockdowns, reading Mirza Asadullah Khan...
BOOKS IN BRIEF
Voyager: A Journey to Self and Love Khurram Shahzad
This debut collection of poetry is divided into two sections,...
FICTION: MACHINATIONS OF THE MACHINE
The new novel by S.K. Tremayne is another well-crafted and hugely enjoyable suspense thriller, which pulls you...
SPRINGBOARD TO HISTORY
A well-respected historian presents brief historical stories told in lucid prose that counter generalisations and...
NON-FICTION: THE FORGOTTEN INDIAN ARTISTS
William Dalrymple’s curated book accompanying the first large exhibition of ‘Company Painting’ reveals the obscured...
COLUMN: A TIME FOR DEATH
News of death, especially if unrelated to the dreaded coronavirus, seems all the more dismal...
LITBUZZ: ZHR WINNER NOW CONTENDING FOR THE COMMONWEALTH
Maham Javaid, whose short story ‘The Tallest Woman’ won the first Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women...
NON-FICTION: BALLOT BOXES WITHOUT BIRYANI
A research-based treatise on how rural Pakistanis in Sargodha district vote turns many assumptions on their heads...
FICTION: INTERACTIVE AFGHAN ZOMBIELAND
A Pakistani novella that bills itself as interactive has problems with characterisations, but is an easy enough...
NON-FICTION: DECONSTRUCTING MYTHS
A searing and unapologetic work challenges accepted social ‘truths’ of an increasingly polarised West and offers...