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Random House’s chief copy editor lets loose on how to edit and the copy that infuriates him

Kanhaiyya Laal (Khalid Latif after conversion to Islam) Gauba was a Lahore-born lawyer, author and politician...

I approach biographies of my favourite writers with some trepidation, more so when the writer in question has ...

A lucid book adds nuance, depth and deeper understanding about the issue of counterfeit and substandard medicines...

A dazzling collection by one of the best short story writers of our times combines the absurdity of a Coen brothers...

A translation of essays by one of the foremost Chinese writers in early 20th century adds a textured understanding to...

Ilhan Niaz’s latest book on the background dynamics of the British Raj provides valuable insights into today’s...

All characters are so palpable and identifiable in the context of Pakistan’s political history and sociology, that...

The language spoken in Baltistan is said to be directly descended from Old Tibetan, which was used throughout the

A solidly researched book on the relationship between the Pakistan Army and the United States offers a wealth of details

As the brother of former army chief Gen Asif Nawaz and a well-respected journalist and academic based in the United...

Had it not won the Booker Prize, Bernardine Evaristo’s novel would still have entered the literary canon based on its

The Palestinian poet known the world over is Mahmoud Darwish. Among the major poetic voices of our times, it is in...

Julian Barnes’s latest book is a groundbreaking, genre-bending biography which has the fascination of fiction and which

An astonishing novel that sets out to explore complex theories regarding the human experience shows that thought

Revisiting 1971 in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India shows how people remember the conflict and how states influence those

Muhammad Hafeez Khan’s latest work of fiction — a novel in the Seraiki language titled Adh Adhooray Lok [People...

An astonishingly epic debut novel is a masterful portrait of a country as well as a fitting epitaph for its gone-too

A book that asks all the pertinent questions about euthanasia and more, but which is made special by its ability to

An autobiography by an exemplary bureaucrat offers tantalising glimpses into governance in Balochistan