NON-FICTION: A SENSE OF GRACE From Kurram Valley to the World Bank’s corridors, a Pakistani internationalist retraces a global journey marked by discipline,... Published 08 Feb, 2026 09:32am
In This Is Where the Serpent Lives, Daniyal Mueenuddin traces how power is inherited and enforced in Pakistan Through one lost boy in Rawalpindi, the author's spare, Chekhovian novel studies how lives are shaped by systems that never announce themselves. Published 04 Feb, 2026 02:06pm
FICTION: THE EMOTIONAL ECONOMY OF SERVITUDE Daniyal Mueenuddin’s much-anticipated first novel does not retreat from the terrain that made his reputation; it expands it. Published 01 Feb, 2026 08:47am
NON-FICTION : A NATION’S MIRROR Former foreign secretary Shamshad Ahmed Khan’s memoirs are a chronicle, an apologia and a meditation — an effort to capture Published 21 Dec, 2025 07:03am
FICTION: BRINGING THE BONES HOME Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s posthumously published, unfinished novella, despite its shortcomings, carries his deep understanding of Published 26 Oct, 2025 08:28am
NON-FICTION: FILLING THE VOID Atish Taseer’s latest memoir/travelogue is a poetic and philosophical exploration of the condition of modern man, in a world... Published 07 Sep, 2025 09:50am
FICTION: PAMUK’S JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE Orhan Pamuk’s pseudo-historical detective story set on a fictional island in Ottoman times reminds us that the postmodern author’s Published 11 Dec, 2022 11:13am
FICTION: THE FRAGILITY OF WHITENESS Mohsin Hamid’s new novel is a fantasy and a love story, but also about grief, loss and transformation and a tragic tale of the... Published 28 Aug, 2022 04:25am
FICTION: PARADISE LOST Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ayad Akhtar’s latest novel is an elegy for America. But it is also an elegy for Muslim... Published 17 Jan, 2021 06:55am
NON-FICTION: FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE WHITE HOUSE Bob Woodward’s latest bestseller, already in its 10th reprint since its release on September 11, has broken a number of Published 30 Sep, 2018 06:28am
NON-FICTION: HOW AMERICA LOST ITS MIND US President Donald Trump is both a product of and canny exploiter of the fantasy-industrial complex Published 07 Jan, 2018 07:01am
FICTION: THE SUPERMARKET OF SORROW Arundhati Roy’s new novel, longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize, is a story of persecution, albeit one in which Published 17 Sep, 2017 07:01am
ESSAY: THE MOST SCANDALOUS NOVEL EVER WRITTEN Revisiting Ulysses — that drew the wrath of Western censors nearly a century ago Updated 21 Apr, 2017 08:07pm
The myth of the classless society Looking beyond appearances to uncover the social hierarchy entrenched in the United States Published 22 Jan, 2017 07:31am
