George Saunders’s latest book, about the craft of writing, is a peek into what a classroom helmed by the award-winning writer...
Published 05 Dec, 2021 07:01am
A debut novel, about childhood trauma and how it can change us and continue to shape us as adults, makes for some voyeuristic...
Published 05 Dec, 2021 07:01am
Arif Mahmood’s handsome book of photographs taken at Sufi shrines over 32 years is not simply an ethnographic documentation...
Published 05 Dec, 2021 07:01am
Mustafa Akyol’s latest book is another open invitation to critically examine the popular Islamic discourse about a value that...
Published 28 Nov, 2021 07:08am
The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world’s largest book fair and this year was also the first physical book fair since the...
Published 28 Nov, 2021 07:08am
A compilation of essays on feminism in Urdu is a welcome development, but could have been better thought through...
Published 28 Nov, 2021 07:08am
Regular readers will know I’ve been thinking about pandemic literature since Covid-19 went global in early 2020. A...
Published 28 Nov, 2021 07:08am
Soon after his five-year labour of love and determination — his book Once Upon a Time in Murree — was published,...
Published 21 Nov, 2021 07:32am
Murree of yore, both colonial and postcolonial, comes alive in the pages of this showstopper of a coffee table book,...
Published 21 Nov, 2021 07:32am
A British-Pakistani poet’s satirical epic is fine poetry delivered through playful lyrical flourishes woven with astute...
Published 21 Nov, 2021 07:32am
In these times of death, disease, depression and sorrow, we have lost many literary stalwarts, from Shamsur Rahman...
Published 21 Nov, 2021 07:32am
The review of Javed Jabbar’s book “But Prime Minister...” by Safiya Aftab, published in Books and Authors on...
Published 21 Nov, 2021 07:32am
A debut novel weaves together a picture of denizens of Karachi who have had enough of being pushed around and who decide to...
Updated 14 Nov, 2021 12:38pm
A former diplomat-turned-wanderer attempts to unearth the soul of places he visits
by connecting them to writers and artists...
Published 14 Nov, 2021 07:13am
An excellent anthology of writers muses on what it means to be displaced from one’s origins and to be Sindhi outside in the...
Published 14 Nov, 2021 07:13am
What is the Urdu for ‘fiddle dee dee’, or the English for ‘Sarra rara rara’? Are those words really English...
Updated 15 Nov, 2021 11:13am
The winner of this year’s Zeenat Haroon Rashid (ZHR) Writing Prize for Women is Alia Ahmed for her short story...
Published 14 Nov, 2021 07:13am
Benazir Bhutto during her first tenure as prime minister at the PTV headquarters, Islamabad, in 1988 with PTV’s...
Updated 16 Nov, 2021 08:38pm
With good and bad feudals, a love triangle and nods to other hot-button contemporary issues, this novel could very well be...
Published 07 Nov, 2021 07:03am
A brilliant new book consolidates a large, understudied and unseen part of the visual documentation of the times of the...
Published 07 Nov, 2021 07:03am
