BEN Marcus’ books are difficult to categorise within fiction. ‘Experimental’ is the most apt term used to...
Published 28 Jul, 2014 12:34pm
Is Mary brave to stay with her son through the torment of his crucifixion, but not brave enough to intervene?
Published 16 Mar, 2014 07:41am
One of the first sessions at the Lahore Literary Festival was labelled ‘Delirium in Karachi.’ Three debut...
Published 02 Mar, 2014 07:25am
Jugnu Mohsin’s talented mimicry of Imran Khan, Nawaz Sharif, the late Benazir Bhutto, a posh Englishwoman, the ...
Published 02 Mar, 2014 07:25am
Last year in February, Lahore’s first Literary Festival began with rain and ended on a sunny spring day. So did...
Published 02 Mar, 2014 07:25am
The novel is about a spunky girl who gets bullied for being different ...
Published 02 Feb, 2014 08:08am
The narrative begins in 1953, with Neil living with his father in a rented flat close to Kensington Gardens in London
Published 26 Jan, 2014 07:40am
The Khayaal Arts & Literature festival is Lahore’s second such event this year
Published 10 Nov, 2013 08:00am
Twelve men gather in a hotel room to discuss a series of recent, simultaneously occurring coincidences and crimes in...
Published 27 Oct, 2013 07:06am
The Orphan Master’s Son won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year...
Published 07 Oct, 2013 04:43pm
Midway through this infernally boring novel, Dan Brown finally pulls a fast one on the reader, and the story picks...
Published 28 Jul, 2013 08:41am
The novel has many possibilities still left in it, and J.M. Coetzee’s attempt in this partial success of a novel ...
Published 07 Jul, 2013 10:37am