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NON-FICTION: THE CALL OF THE SUFI
True stories of people across the religious divide, who all found solace in Nizamuddin Auliya
NON-FICTION: COERCION FROM ABOVE, CONSENT FROM BELOW
A valuable addition to understanding the political economy of Pakistan, a new book takes a dialectical approach
NON-FICTION: IN SEARCH OF PARADISE
A profound comment on identity and belonging in today’s troubled multicultural world
COLUMN: LOSING IQBAL
Yesterday, April 21, marked exactly 80 years since the death of Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Who is Iqbal? So many lofty...
COMMENT: A PULITZER-WINNING COMEDY
It’s about time something genuinely comic came out on top
NON-FICTION: STAMPING POSTERITY
A sumptuous volume is not only a tribute to a legendary stamp designer, but also a visual chronicle
NARRATIVE ARC: BEWARE OF ART
In Pakistan today, we face a renewed challenge to both freedom of inquiry and freedom of expression, coupled with a...
NON-FICTION: REVISITING THE INDUS WATERS TREATY
The first runner-up in the Karachi Literature Festival-German Peace Prize is a critical and timely contribution
FICTION: WHO’S TELLING THE TRUTH?
A debut novel that spins a twisty tale of friendship, death and deceit
COLUMN: THE MAGIC TOUCH
More than halfway through Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif’s lengthy masterpiece In the Eye of the Sun, the...
NON-FICTION: SHARDS OF MEMORY
A debutante author reconstructs Partition through the things fleeing migrants took with them from their homes
INTERVIEW: “REMNANT OBJECTS PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN TRIGGERING MEMORY” — AANCHAL MALHOTRA
Aanchal Malhotra is the author of Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition Through Material Memory
Did...
BOOKS IN BRIEF
Mehvar
Ibn Saeed
In this classic story by Hasan Askari writing under a pseudonym, the disempowerment of ...
NON-FICTION: A MEMOIR TOO SOON
Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s autobiography is mediocre at best and has come too soon in his career
NARRATIVE ARC: BLOOD AND GRACE
The poise, the grace, the detached analysis of the political trajectory of the country and the unique...
NON-FICTION: REVOLUTIONARIES AT HOME
An uncommon masterpiece on the Russian Revolution of 1917 incorporates illuminating insights and information, even
NON-FICTION: WHEN THE PRESS ROSE UP FOR FREEDOM
The English translation of a seminal work that documents journalists’ struggle against state repression in 1977-78
COLUMN: GARDENS OF THE HEART
Garden imagery can be allegorical, metaphorical or simply romantic. In classical Persian and Urdu ghazal, the garden...
FICTION: MASSEY’S NEW MISTRY SERIES
The first of a series of mystery novels set in 1920s Bombay is flawed, but also offers promise
FICTION: LOST IN TRANSLATION?
A “story that ought to be better known” could have been far better told
NON-FICTION: THE MUSLIM ‘SUSPECT’
Exploring what it means to be a Muslim in today’s India through the lens of a vilified Delhi neighbourhood