NON-FICTION: THE COUNTRY OF MANY FACES
Declan Walsh’s recollections of Pakistan, despite its personal digressions, offers a rare collage of Pakistan’s most...
LITBUZZ: BOOKER PRIZE 2020 SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED
The finalists for this year’s Booker Prize have been announced, with six titles chosen from a longlist of 13 ...
NON-FICTION: THE FORGOTTEN NARRATIVE OF WORLD WAR II
A pioneering and riveting account, of the mostly Muslim Indian soldiers who fought in the Second World War, is a labour of love...
NON-FICTION: HOW THE TWAIN EMBRACED
An absorbing fairytale of the power of love over cultural dissonance and a woman’s strength of character...
FICTION: HEARTS AND MINDS
A bi-cultural novel about two Egyptian sisters set in the post-Arab Spring world explores timeless issues of love and longing...
FICTION: APPREHENSIONS OF THE BALOCH
A fictional Urdu novella reflects the sentiments and fears of the people of Gwadar
about their future...
ESSAY: IMDAD HUSSAINI — AS I SEE HIM
A tribute to one of the most prominent poets of the Sindhi language...
COLUMN: MATCHES MADE IN HEAVEN
In this column, I want to discuss a new book I co-edited with my colleagues Nafhesa Ali and Richard Phillips (both...
FICTION: DECONSTRUCTING AMERICA
Ben Lerner’s final instalment of his autofiction trilogy is as big-brained as it is large-hearted and goes beyond excavating...
NON-FICTION: EVERY STREET HAS A STORY
An Urdu book narrates Karachi’s glorious heritage via the tales behind the naming of its streets, indicating how cities...
NON-FICTION: WOMEN OF SONG
A recent book explores the lives of select female singers of Pakistan to gain insight into the country’s sociology and its...
COLUMN: OASES IN CULTURAL WASTELANDS
In Pakistan, those citizens who feel concerned about the rapid deterioration happening in almost every walk of life,...
FICTION: ELEGY TO A VANISHED WORLD
An International Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about a family’s travails following Iran’s Islamic Revolution paints...
NON-FICTIONL: HISTORY COME ALIVE
Abubaker Sheikh stands apart from the run-of-the-mill Urdu travel writers in Pakistan. Like the best writers, his lates...
NON-FICTION: THE UNENDING AFGHAN SAGA
A former Pakistani diplomat presents his ringside view of political developments in Afghanistan over the past two decades...
COLUMN: DICTIONARIES AND THEIR MAKERS
Most of us know that a lughat is an Urdu/Arabic/Persian equivalent of a dictionary, but many might not know what a...
ESSAY: AINI APA, MY BELOVED AUNT
August 21 is the 13th anniversary of the death of Qurratulain Hyder, often dubbed ‘the doyenne of Urdu writers.’ Her niece...
FICTION: THE HOUSE THAT AMERICA BUILT
A story of two families divided by race but united by tragedy, that takes an unflinching look at the repercussions of racism...
NON-FICTION: TRIANGULATED DESTINIES
A new book provides a historical perspective on what to expect from US-Indo relations vis-a-vis a rising China...
COLUMN: POETRY IN TRANSLATION
Sometimes, reading a chance remark that asserts a surprising claim persuades us to reread a text to see if we’d...
FICTION: ORDER OUT OF CHAOS
A shape-shifting novel traverses band culture, sociology and politics to paint a sprawling picture of the United States over...