Many of Enid Blyton’s much-loved works have been given subtle new touches, impacting the original style
Updated 06 Mar, 2016 07:54am
Peter Jones’s book gives new insight into the diplomatic channel known as Track Two
Updated 07 Mar, 2016 01:02am
The last novel published before his death, Umberto Eco’s Numero Zero is a must-read
Updated 07 Mar, 2016 01:04am
Historical documents and biographies reveal there may be a reason behind differing accounts of the poet’s birthday
Updated 06 Mar, 2016 08:20am
A look at the history of India from the perspective of Russian Marxist historians
Updated 07 Mar, 2016 01:01am
A graphic novel based on the life of the artist Shakir Ali presents all the nuances of his personality
Updated 12 May, 2016 02:37am
Cecilia Ekbäck’s debut mystery novel is set in 1717 in Lapland, Sweden
Updated 07 Mar, 2016 01:07am
LLF offered a reasonably diverse array of literary, musical, political, and historical sessions
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
On the session ‘Voices and Verse of Central Asia’
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
“I burned with a desire to do with the readers what the writers had done to me to inspire that particular feeling ...”
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
LLF was in a tug of war with the government but the controversy didn’t take away from its interesting sessions
Updated 06 Mar, 2016 01:30pm
“This is not a crackdown on literature but it is a crackdown on everything ... ”
— Ahdaf Soueif
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
On the sessions that brought together myriad personalities to discuss global current affairs
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
The sessions on Urdu commemorated great literary figures and highlighted emerging trends
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
On the poetry sessions at the LLF
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
On the session ‘Mobilising New Readers’
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
On the session ‘Life With my Father, George Orwell'
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
In an exclusive interview with Books&Authors, Margaret Atwood talks about zombies, technology and storytelling
Published 21 Feb, 2016 07:11am
On the brilliance of Joseph Conrad and what his correspondence reveals about his literary struggles and writing process
Published 21 Feb, 2016 07:11am
Flood of Fire is not just a fictional account of the Opium Wars; it immerses the reader in a unique world
Published 21 Feb, 2016 07:11am
Kevin Kwan follows up his bestseller with another entertaining, fun book
Published 21 Feb, 2016 07:11am
Do comics have a future in Pakistan? Reflections on their reception at the 30th Lahore International Book Fair
Updated 12 May, 2016 02:53am
What is it like to have Huntington’s disease? Lisa Genova takes readers on a personal journey of a patient & his family
Published 21 Feb, 2016 07:11am
Chigozie Obioma’s debut novel marks the author as one of the promising new voices from Africa
Published 21 Feb, 2016 07:11am
The writer had become a fixture at festivals and was missed at the KLF
Updated 14 Feb, 2016 04:35pm
As writers are slowly eclipsed by performers, it’s time to ask what the KLF can do differently next year
Updated 14 Feb, 2016 04:42pm
Urdu language and literature featured prominently at the festival
Updated 14 Feb, 2016 04:35pm
“Urdu has not produced any critic of global repute.”
Updated 14 Feb, 2016 04:35pm
On the diversity in the sessions on English language writing and reading
Updated 14 Feb, 2016 04:35pm
A dozen or so sessions on politics was an impressive number ... less impressive was the diversity of topics explored
Updated 14 Feb, 2016 04:35pm
Is a Liberal Arts education worth pursuing?
Updated 14 Feb, 2016 04:35pm
The trends and behind-the-scenes lobbying in promoting gender equality
Updated 14 Feb, 2016 04:35pm
A closer look at art writing and critiquing
Updated 14 Feb, 2016 04:35pm
How does the media choose what to portray and when?
Updated 14 Feb, 2016 04:35pm
The book launch of Train to Pakistan led to some interesting discussions on history
Updated 14 Feb, 2016 04:35pm
Reflecting on what made Intizar Husain such a literary icon
Updated 14 Feb, 2016 04:35pm
Inevitable though it is, death carries layers of symbolic significance when it takes away a man like Intizar Husain
Published 07 Feb, 2016 12:05pm
On the portrayal of women in the Tilism-i Hoshruba
Published 07 Feb, 2016 12:05pm
The JLF featured a variety of literary and cultural figures and attracted the diverse audience that is unique to it
Published 07 Feb, 2016 12:05pm
Feminist and political activist Anis Haroon’s memoirs encapsulate her extraordinary tale
Published 07 Feb, 2016 12:05pm
Social media-savvy singer Amanda Palmer memoirs is about her rise to stardom and a guide to asking for help
Updated 12 Feb, 2016 03:58pm
An innovative book on contested spaces and geographies of the metropolitan city presents an alternative narrative
Published 31 Jan, 2016 06:48am
On Urdu poetry’s sport of visual metaphors
Published 31 Jan, 2016 06:48am
Tariq Rahman’s analysis of the history of Pakistani English literature details the changing trends from the 1940s-1980s
Published 31 Jan, 2016 06:48am
Hajra Masroor must have had her reasons but Urdu fiction lost one of its finest voices when she decided to stop writing
Published 31 Jan, 2016 06:48am
Artist Anwar Jalal Shemza’s work was confined to the margins in his lifetime but his achievements are highlighted today
Updated 25 Jan, 2016 03:27pm
Noted scholar Yasmin Khan gives readers insight into British India’s
role in WWII & its aftermath for the subcontinent
Updated 24 Jan, 2016 07:35pm
Activist and researcher Ram Puniyani provides an alternative viewpoint on terrorism’s root causes
Updated 24 Jan, 2016 07:35pm
China Miéville’s collection of short stories showcase an accomplished raconteur at his best
Updated 24 Jan, 2016 07:35pm
A book on poet and lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi does justice to his life and work
Updated 24 Jan, 2016 07:35pm
James Rice’s debut novel brilliantly plunges the reader into the world of a schizophrenic teenager
Updated 24 Jan, 2016 07:35pm
Rashid Jahan was more than just the Angareywali, she was also a pioneering activist
Published 17 Jan, 2016 06:42am
Daisy Rockwell captures the nuances and details of the original in her translation of Upendranath Ashk’s magnum opus
Published 17 Jan, 2016 06:42am
Randall Munroe dissects seemingly nonsensical impossibilities by applying scientific principles
Published 17 Jan, 2016 06:42am
Haruki Murakami’s earlier works, recently translated into English exhibit the writing style that is uniquely his
Published 17 Jan, 2016 06:42am
In Sky Key, the second novel in the Endgame series, the Players are competing for the purpose of surviving
Published 17 Jan, 2016 06:42am
Sana Munir’s debut novel attempts to take on more themes than can be dealt with
Published 17 Jan, 2016 06:42am
A groundbreaking work helps us to understand the various factors that operationalise our art and culture
Published 17 Jan, 2016 06:42am
Kate Atkinson has become the first writer to receive the Costa novel prize thrice. This year, 2016, marks her third...
Published 10 Jan, 2016 07:25am
So says Husain ibn Mansūr Hallāj,
May God be pleased with him:
A lamp arose from the Light Unseen,
It arose, and...
Published 10 Jan, 2016 07:25am
The Fifth Season is a dystopian novel that is chillingly reminiscent of the shackles of
imperialism in its subtle...
Updated 14 Jan, 2016 05:50pm
On 80 years of the publication of Penguin paperback books.
Updated 12 May, 2016 02:57am
A key concern of postcolonial criticism has been to interpret how writers from formerly-colonised countries...
Published 10 Jan, 2016 07:25am
A Lok Virsa publication, The Bazaar of the Storytellers tells the tales of the Qissa Khwani Bazaar Peshawar.
Published 10 Jan, 2016 07:25am
A history of the Communist Party of Pakistan, the Progressive Writers Association, and the labour movement is presented
Published 10 Jan, 2016 07:25am
Christopher Snedden’s new title, Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris, describes the region and its history going back to
Published 03 Jan, 2016 08:08am
Reflections on literary festivals and fellow panellists
Published 03 Jan, 2016 07:59am
Relevant to these times, Nadia Hashimi’s latest novel is written from a refugee’s perspective
Published 03 Jan, 2016 07:59am
Syed Munir Husain’s memoirs take us through some of the political upheavals he was witness to during his years
Published 03 Jan, 2016 07:43am
J. Ryan Stradal’s Kitchens of the Great Midwest is a delicious novel, to be enjoyed by those who like good food, as well
Published 03 Jan, 2016 07:35am
Here’s a quick glance at what you might have missed reading in 2015, but should still try to pick up at the bookstore
Updated 20 Jul, 2018 12:41am
The rise and fall of Rajesh Khanna as told by Yasser Usman
Published 03 Jan, 2016 07:35am
THE one Urdu book that stood out above all others I have read this past year is undoubtedly Intizar Husain's...
Updated 29 Dec, 2015 08:03pm
IT was a middling year for fans of chick lit. On the one hand, there were a couple of great reads from unexpected...
Updated 30 Dec, 2015 12:56am
THESE days I don't get enough time to read much fiction as I would like to. The writing of my latest novel set ...
Updated 30 Dec, 2015 12:18am
ONE of the disadvantages of being an avid reader is that at the end of every year as you sit down to evaluate the...
Updated 29 Dec, 2015 08:15pm
MOST years witness a healthy number of publications of spy fiction, and 2015 was no different. Jeffrey Archer ...
Updated 30 Dec, 2015 12:49am
DUE chiefly to the fact that I have travelled quite a lot this year - and when I travel I read more - this has been ...
Updated 30 Dec, 2015 12:14am
THE book that I have been slow-reading through the year is Dada Amir Haider Khan's memoir, Chains to Lose....
Updated 29 Dec, 2015 07:59pm
I HAVE read a few works of fiction during the course of 2015, among others Adelbert von Chamisso's Peter...
Updated 29 Dec, 2015 07:56pm
Banned book wins 'Arabic Booker'A week after it was banned across the United Arab Emirates, the Tunisian...
Published 27 Dec, 2015 07:09am
DURING 2015, a large number of novels were based around the sad picture of terrorism and the APS Peshawar school...
Updated 30 Dec, 2015 12:21am
COMPARED to recent years books published this year related to the regional politics of Pakistan were scant. Perhaps...
Updated 30 Dec, 2015 12:45am
PABLO Neruda's protégé, the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra, once told the younger poets of his region not to write...
Updated 29 Dec, 2015 08:24pm
I'D venture that 2015 hasn't been the best year for Pakistani fiction in English but then again, what's...
Updated 30 Dec, 2015 12:26am
THE literary world's hot topic for a few years already has been 'diversity', and it's more relevant...
Updated 30 Dec, 2015 12:32am
Letters, words and sentences all strung together in infinite possibilities ... an alphabet soup or a scrabble of...
Published 27 Dec, 2015 07:09am
THEY say that those who read do not write as much and those who write do not read as much. Since I write every day,...
Updated 29 Dec, 2015 08:09pm
THREE books stood out for me this year, though none are from this year. First, The Hearing Trumpet, by the ...
Updated 29 Dec, 2015 08:17pm
SINCE I am a writer myself, many other writers feel that I must read their creations and I have received scores of...
Updated 29 Dec, 2015 08:19pm
THOUGH 2015 will not go down in the history of Urdu fiction as a vintage year, it was, at least, not totally...
Updated 30 Dec, 2015 12:38am
I DIDN'T read as much as I wanted to this year because I was working on a novel; I try not to read much fiction...
Updated 29 Dec, 2015 08:11pm
A brilliantly imagined attempted assassination of reggae legend Bob Marley and a turbulent Jamaica of the ’70s and ’80s
Published 20 Dec, 2015 07:22am
Meghan Daum’s collection of essays are honest, witty and worth a read
Published 20 Dec, 2015 07:22am
Women writers challenge and break down the region’s colonial tropes of isolation and violence in their work
Published 20 Dec, 2015 07:22am
Mario Vargas Llosa’s latest novel is an engaging thriller revolving around a defiant protagonist
Published 20 Dec, 2015 07:22am
Padma Viswanathan intimately explores the impact of the Air India bombing on the Indian Canadian community
Published 20 Dec, 2015 07:22am
The IUC had its low points, but has gradually brought forth fresh names who may well be the leading lights of tomorrow
Published 20 Dec, 2015 07:22am
R.K. Narayan’s work has been reduced to essentialist readings but can also be looked at through a postcolonial prism
Published 20 Dec, 2015 07:22am
