A debut novel takes on the hapless fate of streetwalkers who are exploited by the very law enforcers who should be protecting them

A political scientist deconstructs the work of the Council of Islamic Ideology and how it fits into Pakistan’s ‘Islamisation’

There was a time — not very long ago — when students, labour, journalists and a representative segment of...

In November 2020, former president of the United States, Barack Obama, released his memoir A Promised Land. According to...

A book on the Royal Indian Navy mutiny of 1946 is a compellingly good read for connoisseurs of South Asian history in general, and

An Urdu translation of one of the masterpieces of mountaineering and exploration work is as much a reader’s delight as the...

Prelude: I have been trying to write my lived experience of a heart attack for over a month now. But words didn’t flow.

So many of us — women, especially — would nod in agreement at a grandmother admonishing a young girl to tie back her hair at...

A new book traces the stories of the Sherpas in Nepal, who have been providing invaluable assistance to international mountaine...

Huma Abedin’s autobiography can be split into a retelling of the writer’s personal and professional lives. The former is heart...

A new novel is an attention-grabbing examination of the subtext of H.G. Wells’s classic The Island of Dr Moreau and a shapeshi...

The repetition of the theme over centuries reveals it to be a major preoccupation of our literature.

An excellent biography of scholar and freedom fighter Bahadur Yar Jang, who achieved so much in the short 39 years that nature...

A debut novel with a memorable storyline offers a poignant study of the secrets women keep to survive and the perils that could...

Merging the personal and the public, this highly readable book will appeal to serious academics and to shrine culture’s die-har...

It may not have been so in the past — perhaps because of the well-rounded scholarship of the literary stalwarts...

The translation of Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai’s Pashto autobiography into English will allow a wider readership to appreciate...

A beautifully written novel set in the 18th century that encompasses two journeys, one about a physical sojourn across cont

An anthropologist examines Pakistan’s jails and their history, mainly through the eyes of the incarcerated

Novelist Charlotte Brontë was devastated when her sister Emily died from tuberculosis on December 19, 1848....