Winner of the 2024 Booker Prize, a slim novel set in a space station engages with deep questions about the future of humanity and
Published 02 Mar, 2025 08:09am
A kind of poetic justice was meted out to me some years later. My school had been recently nationalised and, while a number of
Published 02 Mar, 2025 08:03am
The book provides the complete history of Jammu & Kashmir, from the rule of the Mughals followed by the Sikhs and Britishers...
Published 23 Feb, 2025 09:58am
While sometimes dated, journalist Zahid Hussain’s collection of 39 interviews with people who mattered at the time, provides...
Published 23 Feb, 2025 09:42am
A slim collection of short stories covers vast ground, from magical realism to social ills and diverse issues facing expatriate...
Published 23 Feb, 2025 09:37am
At a first glance, one feels jitters going through the spine to note the title Ghalib gave to his 1857-1858 diary of that fateful
Published 23 Feb, 2025 09:34am
The 16th Karachi Literature Festival was held over three days from February 7-9. An author of two novels assesses the annual...
Published 16 Feb, 2025 09:29am
An Urdu translation of the most famous book by last year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Han Kang, is flawless and...
Published 16 Feb, 2025 09:23am
An important new book leads one to rethink what the world could have been, had notions of ethnic and civilisational superiority...
Published 16 Feb, 2025 09:17am
At the 16th Karachi Literature Festival (KLF), the two incisive keynote speeches in the inaugural session, by F.S....
Updated 09 Mar, 2025 09:11am
A second edition of a book with an additional article delves into the prickly issues surrounding the state of Pakistan, in...
Published 09 Feb, 2025 10:01am
Awais Khan’s latest novel, about a married Lahore high-society couple trying to navigate a relationship fraught with personal...
Published 09 Feb, 2025 09:33am
A stupendous piece of painstaking research, a new book in Urdu provides the most comprehensive listing of Mohammed Rafi songs...
Published 09 Feb, 2025 09:26am
The pronoun ‘hum’ or ‘we’ is added to many of Farsi-Urdu nouns to create poetic, evocative compounds such as...
Published 09 Feb, 2025 09:24am
A historian looks at Lahore as a case-study to see how his hometown has systematically lost its connection to its many-splendoured
Published 02 Feb, 2025 09:17am
A memoir by a young blogger seems like a self-help book for young women like her and is primarily focused on child-rearing and...
Published 02 Feb, 2025 09:13am
Dr Mahmood Ali Ayub compares the life experiences and poetic styles of two celebrated poets — Pakistan’s Faiz Ahmed Faiz...
Published 02 Feb, 2025 09:10am
Sometimes the lack of stimulation is just what the mind needs to develop in a healthy way. I recently thought about...
Published 02 Feb, 2025 09:03am
While a new book about the scandalous death of poet and former bureaucrat Mustafa Zaidi more than 50 years ago still doesn’t give
Published 26 Jan, 2025 09:58am
A slim book is a good starting point for those who want to have a basic idea about Pakistan’s economic problems and policies over
Published 26 Jan, 2025 09:53am
An English translation of Hasan Manzar’s Urdu novel Habs successfully retains the style and meaning of the original work
Published 26 Jan, 2025 09:40am
In Jamshoro, a couple of months ago, I had a chance to visit the M.H. Panhwar Institute of Sindh Studies. The...
Published 26 Jan, 2025 09:35am
A gripping tale about prevailing political realities, Omar Shahid Hamid’s sixth novel is a playful political satire about power
Published 19 Jan, 2025 09:11am
A collection of short stories, essays and reflections force one to ponder the harsh realities of life and the resilience required
Updated 19 Jan, 2025 05:03pm
A coffee table book chronicles the convoluted journey of the establishment of the National Art Gallery in Islamabad, from its...
Published 19 Jan, 2025 08:58am
This summer I was awarded a GCSE in Urdu. I’m now inching towards an A-level in the language. I was inspired to...
Published 19 Jan, 2025 08:48am
A first collection of short stories by a renowned academic fuses the absurd with realism and explores social layers of...
Published 12 Jan, 2025 08:43am
Set against the backdrop of gruesome murders in the late 1970s in bleak post-industrial Yorkshire, England, a rewarding debut...
Published 12 Jan, 2025 08:39am
A veteran journalist’s recollections document Pakistan’s political and social history, offering insight particularly into some...
Published 12 Jan, 2025 08:35am
