The LLF, as always, had a diverse and eclectic array of topics under discussion this year...
Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:36am
On his way to the seafront, he found a bookshop. Instinctively, he entered and picked up a book by Jean Paul Sartre. “He though...
Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:36am
Seventy five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, English readers get an extraordinary account of life in a concentration...
Published 28 Feb, 2021 07:36am
An important Australian novel, set in the gruesome world of Sydney in the 1700s, attempts to come to terms with the monstros...
Published 21 Feb, 2021 07:03am
Elif Shafak’s long essay in the shape of a booklet, ponders the big issues of the times, which trouble people around the world...
Published 21 Feb, 2021 07:03am
Seeking a metaphor to describe Ghalib, we must recognise that he himself is its superb craftsman...
Updated 21 Feb, 2021 12:51pm
Barack Obama reflects on his and America’s journey during his presidential tenure, in the first part of a two-volume memoir...
Updated 22 Feb, 2021 09:01am
A celebrated writer’s sophomore novel may be much more modest in scope than her debut, but is equally ambitious in its premi...
Published 14 Feb, 2021 06:47am
A limited-edition, handsome monograph on Pakistani artist Ayessha Quraishi serves as a semi-scholarly documentation that...
Published 14 Feb, 2021 06:47am
Somewhere towards the end of the first decade of this century, I came upon a review, in the pages of Dawn, of a book...
Published 14 Feb, 2021 06:47am
A compelling and lucid memoir of a Pakistani British man’s coming to terms with his sexuality could be a game-changer...
Published 14 Feb, 2021 06:47am
A debut novel set in Lahore and New York and focused on the plight of the marginalised in Pakistan shows future promise even...
Published 07 Feb, 2021 07:49am
A new book by a veteran scholar connects political economist Karl Marx’s thoughts from his early years to his later writings...
Updated 07 Feb, 2021 05:44pm
Ebola is a viral infection which causes haemorrhagic fever. Though rare, it has been devastating in west, central ...
Updated 07 Feb, 2021 05:43pm
A well-researched treatise argues for the need to take the threat of scientific racism seriously...
Published 07 Feb, 2021 07:49am
Nasir Abbas Nayyar’s fourth collection of short stories showcases the writer’s scholarliness, creativity and fertile mind...
Published 31 Jan, 2021 07:06am
A sequel book by a music aficionado provides insight into the life and work of 35 more film playback singers from the Subcont...
Published 31 Jan, 2021 07:06am
A critical, informative and argumentative collection of essays on the changing face of media in Pakistan...
Published 31 Jan, 2021 07:06am
Our writers find it easier to convey thoughts and ideas in their prose, but struggle when the feelings and emotions are to be...
Published 31 Jan, 2021 07:06am
Gen Yahya Khan was at the helm of state and the army when Pakistan was torn asunder in 1971...
Published 24 Jan, 2021 06:44am