Newspaper - Books & Authors - November 14, 2026

ESSAY: THE ANTI-LIBRARIES PRESIDENT

US presidents of all persuasions defended libraries as allies of democracy for a century — until Trump

Updated 08 Nov, 2026 08:01am

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NON-FICTION: LEGENDS OF CINEMA

Three Urdu books about three Bollywood icons, translated from various sources, connect the golden age of Indian cinem

Updated 08 Nov, 2026 08:01am

NON-FICTION: WHEN STUDENTS SHOOK THE STATE

Nadeem Farooq Paracha’s engaging new book takes a look at various youth-led political movements in Pakistan and attempts

Updated 08 Nov, 2026 08:01am

FICTION: FATE AND FENG SHUI

A young girl living at the edge of Japanese society, craving emotional connection, financial security and a familial environment

Updated 08 Nov, 2026 08:01am

NON-FICTION: A FEW RUNS SHORT

From remarkable batting records to memorable encounters with cricketing greats, ‘Asian Bradman’ Zaheer Abbas has plenty

Published 01 Nov, 2026 06:29am

BOOKS IN BRIEF

The Journey of Ideas: Literary Essays and Columns

Published 01 Nov, 2026 06:29am

ESSAY: FOR THE LOVE OF READING

Reading alone, together, is all the rage at book doofs and reading parties. What makes it social?

Published 01 Nov, 2026 06:29am

FICTION: MAID IN HEAVEN

The third part of a trilogy revisits the main protagonist hotel maid and her beloved late grandmother who trained her

Published 01 Nov, 2026 06:29am

COLUMN: WRITING AND PUBLISHING — II

This column is a continuation of the happy scene when, having published The Adventures of Amir Hamza, a major...

Published 25 Oct, 2026 06:50am

NON-FICTION: DOWNTON’S GRAND GOODBYE

The official companion to the final film of Downton Abbey celebrates a beloved series — and makes parting with its characters

Published 25 Oct, 2026 06:50am

NON-FICTION: THE MAKING OF THE DEEP STATE

Pakistan’s political history has long been a topic of interest for historians, political scientists, scholars in...

Published 25 Oct, 2026 06:50am

FICTION: THE HUMANS OF GAZA

Mustansar Hussain Tarar’s new novella builds a mosaic about the Gaza genocide, combining snippets of real news and existing

Published 25 Oct, 2026 06:50am

NON-FICTION: THE ERA OF EASTWOOD

A new biography of Clint Eastwood moves seamlessly between discussions of his filmmaking, celebrity culture and American social

Published 18 Oct, 2026 06:34am

ANTHOLOGY: A LITERARY MOSAIC

A new, skilfully curated anthology by the Pakistan Academy of Letters brings together poetry, fiction and non-fiction to explore

Published 18 Oct, 2026 06:34am

NOBEL PRIZE: A POSTMODERNIST STEEPED IN TRADITION

Canadian Anne Carson’s Nobel Prize in Literature celebrates a writer whose work bridges ancient Greek thought and contemporary

Published 18 Oct, 2026 06:34am

NON-FICTION: THE FRENCH CONNECTION

How did a group of notoriously difficult-to-read French philosophers become intellectual rock stars on American campuses? A former

Published 18 Oct, 2026 06:34am

NON-FICTION: THE LONG REACH OF THE APARTHEID STATE

An important and timely new book details how the Zionist state and its allied American pressure groups have shaped US policy, aid

Published 11 Oct, 2026 07:38am

NON-FICTION: THE TRANSFORMING WIFE

A sheltered young woman expects a predictable life after marriage but instead finds herself travelling the world, discovering

Published 11 Oct, 2026 07:38am

NON-FICTION: A SOCIETY'S DOCTOR

A book on the late Dr Haroon Ahmed attempts to connect his wide-ranging work as a psychiatrist, researcher, institution-builder

Published 11 Oct, 2026 07:38am

ESSAY: BOOK FANS AND SCREEN ADAPTATIONS

Fandom is increasingly becoming an essential part of how book-to-film adaptations are marketed

Published 11 Oct, 2026 07:38am

COLUMN: LEARNING LANGUAGE

I am in Pakistan working on my Urdu. Here, I’ve been inspired by Rebecca F. Kuang’s Taipei Story. This is the...

Published 04 Oct, 2026 06:20am

NON-FICTION: JOURNEY THROUGH MEMORY

Forgotten towns and vanished histories turn a new Mustansar Hussain Tarar travelogue into something much more than sightseei

Published 04 Oct, 2026 06:20am

NON-FICTION: PAKISTAN’S POWER GAMES

A recent book by an academic looks at the factors that play a part in the rise to power of Pakistan’s politicians,

Published 04 Oct, 2026 06:20am

FICTION: NO PLACE TO CALL HOME

An Afghan man is repeatedly buffeted between Pakistan and Afghanistan in a slim novel, finding neither country an uncomplicated

Published 04 Oct, 2026 06:20am

COLUMN: HISTORY AND MEMORIES

Writing history is supposed to be based on critical evidence and rational inquiry while recollecting memory is seen...

Published 27 Sep, 2026 07:26am

NON-FICTION: THE ART OF LIVING

At 100, actor and entertainer Dick Van Dyke reflects on eight decades in show business, personal loss and the lessons that have

Published 27 Sep, 2026 07:26am

ESSAY: THE NOVEL IN THE AGE OF AI

With artificial intelligence able to churn out words instantaneously, even imitating and combining the stylistic and technical

Published 27 Sep, 2026 07:26am

FICTION: MURDER AND EMPATHY

Richard Osman’s latest slow-burn thriller continues his trademark balance of humour and morbid mystery, tapping into something

Published 27 Sep, 2026 07:26am

COLUMN: WRITING AND PUBLISHING

This was supposed to be a continuation of my previous column on Naqlain Aur Hikayatain [Anecdotes, Tales and...

Published 20 Sep, 2026 05:49am

NON-FICTION: THE FIRST FEMALE PUNJABI POET

An English translation brings the poetry of the mystic Peero Preman to a wider audience, revealing a fearless voice

Published 20 Sep, 2026 05:49am

FICTION: MEMORY AND FAREWELLS

Celebrated author Julian Barnes bids farewell to his readers with a genre-bending novel about memory, love, ageing

Published 20 Sep, 2026 05:49am

NON-FICTION: THE ALLAMA AND THE BABA

What connects a 17th-century Pashto Sufi poet with a 20th-century Urdu philosopher-poet? A new, immensely researched book

Published 20 Sep, 2026 05:49am

ESSAY: READING DOLLY PARTON

It was sad but strangely fitting that Dolly Parton should have died during the UK’s National Year of Reading, ...

Published 13 Sep, 2026 07:01am

FICTION: THE GHOSTS OF TIME

Love, loss, displacement and vanished worlds collide in a collection of six Urdu stories that travel across time, cities

Updated 13 Sep, 2026 08:55am

FICTION: THE OUTSIDER’S PARIS

Amit Chaudhuri’s latest novel is a quiet, intimate portrait of Paris seen through the eyes of an outsider, where overlooked

Updated 13 Sep, 2026 08:56am