Aqsa Ijaz
A fascinating book looks at our relationship to language, especially language rooted in far-away soils...
Updated 06 Mar, 2022 12:27pm
A Buddhist monk explores the nature of solitude and why it is essential to preserving our fundamental humanity...
Updated 13 Nov, 2020 11:54am
A book challenges our understanding of how people identified themselves before the advent of nation-states...
Published 19 Jul, 2020 06:46am
Litterateur Harold Bloom’s last book is a gift that his admirers and critics will relate to with equal respect...
Updated 02 Feb, 2020 08:04am
An insightful writer contemplates knowledge that cultivates wisdom, as opposed to the mere accumulation of information
Published 29 Sep, 2019 07:09am
An Iranian philosopher ponders about existence and the difference between thinking and philosophy, among other things
Published 26 May, 2019 06:15am
A stimulating finale to a trilogy on humans past, present and future meditates on what it means to be human in the age
Published 24 Feb, 2019 09:17am
In a new novel, a young woman attempts to sleep away an entire year to get over her existential ennui
Published 21 Oct, 2018 08:34am
Humorous vignettes about a tyrannical and uninformed mother’s impact on a family
Published 19 Aug, 2018 07:21am
Martin Puchner’s painstakingly researched book examines the role of literature in shaping the world around us
Published 22 Jul, 2018 07:59am
Despite some omissions, Muhammad Umar Memon’s new anthology of translations provides an exemplary introduction
Updated 12 Feb, 2018 11:20am
Alif Laila wa Laila was a collaborative effort, enlivened as much by its European and Indian translators as its original
Published 03 Dec, 2017 07:08am
Short stories from the Frenchman writing in Urdu explore literary truths about famous Pakistanis
Published 17 Sep, 2017 07:01am
An eye-opening memoir of a woman who took on the patriarchy to secure the rights of her country’s people
Published 16 Jul, 2017 07:38am
A collection of tales handed down from one generation to the next depicts the timelessness of the human experience
Published 11 Jun, 2017 07:03am
