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Reviewed by Huma Yusuf Taiye Selasi’s debut novel, Ghana Must Go, is weighed down by expectation. Selasi was named by…

Reviewed by Muna Khan Is it a memoir? A self-help book? A novel? All of the above? Or none of…

“Men distance themselves in autobiographies that are ‘success stories and histories of the era’, focused on professional lives while women’s…

By Asif Farrukhi On May 22, the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for 2013 will be announced. What…

Reviewed by Salman Rashid There are endless names shining through the annals of the Great Game that raged during the…

Reviewed by Adam Abdullah Journey through Pakistan is written as an actual road trip from Khyber through Punjab to Karachi…

Reviewed by Umair Khan IT is often said that literature has a universal language and its appeal cannot be constrained…

MUSARRAT Hasan has compiled the work of Ijaz ul Hassan in a volume titled Ijaz ul Hassan: Five Decades of…

Reviewed by I.A. Rehman For more than 20 years, Ardeshir Cowasjee diligently functioned as his country’s honorary conscience-keeper. Week after…

In recent years, the social sciences appear to have dominated both the literary and linguistic studies of Urdu, at…

By Raza Naeem Since this is election season in Pakistan, and our vote was scheduled to coincide with Saadat Hasan…

Reviewed by Humair Ishtiaq EVEN for a diehard Muslim Leaguer, it would be quite a task to come up with…

REVIEW: Wool by Hugh Howey

Reviewed by Mahvesh Murad HUGH Howey is a man who once worked for $10 an hour selling books. He must…

Reviewed by Soheba Mohammed Deliciously Yours by Lal Majid is probably the first of its kind in Pakistan. It is…

THE two-day Islamabad Literature Festival has been acknowledged as a tremendous success. It was a multi-lingual festival and along with…

Reviewed by Zohra Yusuf It is unlikely that Zadia Birru of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia could have met Dr…

Film-maker Sabiha Sumar, in a scene from her documentary about women in Pakistan (For a Place Under the Heavens, 2003)…

By Haneen Rafi Sessions focusing on Urdu literature at the first Islamabad Literature Festival were both ample and very well-attended,…

By Haseeb Asif The festival included a number of discussions on poetry and prose written in English by writers of…

By Nurjehan Mawaz-Khan It is inspiring to be among luminaries that one only imagines through their works, and the …