FICTION: BETWEEN TRAGEDY AND COMEDY LIES GENIUS
A dazzling collection by one of the best short story writers of our times combines the absurdity of a Coen brothers...
NON-FICTION: WHY CHINESE HISTORY MATTERS TO THE WORLD
A translation of essays by one of the foremost Chinese writers in early 20th century adds a textured understanding to...
NON-FICTION: RAJ AGAINST MILITARY STATES
Ilhan Niaz’s latest book on the background dynamics of the British Raj provides valuable insights into today’s...
COLUMN: BETWEEN BELIEVERS AND INFIDELS
All characters are so palpable and identifiable in the context of Pakistan’s political history and sociology, that...
BOOKS IN BRIEF
The language spoken in Baltistan is said to be directly descended from Old Tibetan, which was used throughout the
NON-FICTION: ‘FRENEMIES’, NOT MASTERS
A solidly researched book on the relationship between the Pakistan Army and the United States offers a wealth of details
INTERVIEW: ‘WHY NOT DEBATE ISSUES OPENLY?’ — SHUJA NAWAZ
As the brother of former army chief Gen Asif Nawaz and a well-respected journalist and academic based in the United...
FICTION: CELEBRATING SISTERHOOD
Had it not won the Booker Prize, Bernardine Evaristo’s novel would still have entered the literary canon based on its
COLUMN: PALESTINE AS METAPHOR
The Palestinian poet known the world over is Mahmoud Darwish. Among the major poetic voices of our times, it is in...
NON-FICTION: BARNES STORMING
Julian Barnes’s latest book is a groundbreaking, genre-bending biography which has the fascination of fiction and which
FICTION: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMAN?
An astonishing novel that sets out to explore complex theories regarding the human experience shows that thought
NON-FICTION: SILENCED HISTORIES
Revisiting 1971 in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India shows how people remember the conflict and how states influence those
FICTION: IN SEARCH OF LOST IDENTITY
Muhammad Hafeez Khan’s latest work of fiction — a novel in the Seraiki language titled Adh Adhooray Lok [People...
FICTION: CHRONICLES OF A GENIUS FORETOLD
An astonishingly epic debut novel is a masterful portrait of a country as well as a fitting epitaph for its gone-too
NON-FICTION: NO TIME TO DIE
A book that asks all the pertinent questions about euthanasia and more, but which is made special by its ability to
NON-FICTION: A MODEL CIVIL SERVANT
An autobiography by an exemplary bureaucrat offers tantalising glimpses into governance in Balochistan
COLUMN: BOMBAL AND HER VISION
Long before the much-celebrated Latin American boom that is associated with the 1967 publication of One Hundred ...
BOOKS IN BRIEF
A collection of articles written from 1990 to date, that chart the progress — or lack, thereof — in economic, social
NON-FICTION: THE SOFT POWER OF THE NON-WHITE
Fatima Bhutto’s latest book is a thoughtful and entertaining look at how American pop culture has been displaced by new
FICTION: MATTERS OF FAITH
A Pakistani novel explores a young man’s evolving relationship to his faith, but its complexity is let down by its
NON-FICTION: THE TALES A MINARET CAN TELL
An archaeological analysis of Afghanistan’s last great indigenous empire remarkably integrates the traditional and the