Romesh Gunesekera, born 1954, left Sri Lanka at the age of 12 for the Philippines. He moved to England in 1972, and...
Published 31 May, 2015 06:46am
Blending history and storytelling, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s latest offering has kept up with his tradition of producing
Published 31 May, 2015 06:46am
Potential tourism in the areas that lie between Northeast India and Southwest China remains largely unexplored
Published 31 May, 2015 06:46am
An autobiography collated from Ghalib’s letters and written in the first-person
Published 31 May, 2015 06:46am
The Jaipur Literature Festival (or simply JLF) at Southbank Centre London is not the Jaipur Literature Festival.
Updated 30 May, 2015 07:56pm
A cuneiform tablet reveals a different version of the Great Flood from the one told in the Bible
Updated 30 May, 2015 05:58pm
Tracing the timeline of translations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous classics.
Updated 02 Jun, 2015 02:16pm
Translated short-stories of Ali Akbar Natiq show why he is considered one of the greatest contemporary writers of form
Updated 29 May, 2015 05:32pm
On the short-story writer and academic Naiyer Masud
Updated 29 Aug, 2015 03:13pm
A road trip that is a voyage of discoveries
Updated 30 May, 2015 08:00pm
Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's eleventh novel explores racism, family, abuse and trauma
Updated 30 May, 2015 08:10pm
The memoirs of Robert L.Grenier, Pakistan's CIA station chief, are fast-paced but not many details are revealed
Published 17 May, 2015 07:13am
Haruki Murakami explores our deepest fears in his recently translated short story
Published 17 May, 2015 07:13am
On the great American poet, “a major voice” among his contemporaries
Updated 17 May, 2015 01:23pm
On writer Syed Insha Allah Khan’s Kahani Rani Ketki aur Audhe Bhan ki and its English translation
Published 17 May, 2015 07:13am
Lahore: 101 Tales of a Fabled CityBy Abdul Majid Sheikh The latest collection of writings on the city of Lahore by...
Published 17 May, 2015 07:13am
Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago’s first novel looks at the domestic life of the middle-class Portuguese
Published 17 May, 2015 07:13am
A serving Guantánamo detainee’s harrowing memoirs reveal details about interrogation, torture and rendition post-9/11
Published 11 May, 2015 07:20am
The author explores the special place of peacocks in Ghalib’s ghazal poetry
Updated 12 May, 2015 01:28pm
Rafia Zakaria explores polygamy, Pakistan’s sociopolitical history and the story of her aunt in her memoirs
Published 11 May, 2015 07:20am
A profile of the feminist and pioneering publisher Urvashi Butalia
Published 11 May, 2015 07:20am
William Gibson depicts a dystopian future in his eleventh novel
Published 11 May, 2015 07:20am
Censorship of the Sri Lankan media by the government has increased over
the decades
Published 11 May, 2015 07:20am
What the compilation of Zulmat-e-Neem Roz tells us about literary history
Published 11 May, 2015 07:20am
A profile of the feminist writer and avant-garde publisher Urvashi Butulia
Updated 11 May, 2015 07:15pm
The ILF may be the smallest and last in the festival line-up, but it was not lacking in substance
Updated 03 May, 2015 11:14am
Multifaceted debates on gender issues took place at the ILF
Published 03 May, 2015 07:33am
Panellists debate where our film industry lost its way, and its shared heritage with Bollywood
Published 03 May, 2015 07:33am
Discussions on politics by pundits and television personalities at the festival By Saba Ijaz
Published 03 May, 2015 07:33am
The ILF featured a diverse range and style of poetry this year
Published 03 May, 2015 07:33am
Pakistani literature veers between a post-Partition identity and a reality fraught with violence
Published 03 May, 2015 07:33am
In his latest collection titled Lava Javed Akhtar’s poetry is a victory of art over craft
Published 26 Apr, 2015 07:43am
Alexander McCall Smith puts a modern twist on an old classic
Published 26 Apr, 2015 07:43am
Ashok Chopra’s memoirs give readers a closer look at the world of Indian publishing
Published 26 Apr, 2015 07:43am
In Political Order and Political Decay political scientist Francis Fukuyama analyses the rise and fall of the state
Published 26 Apr, 2015 07:43am
Could Islamic socialism be the solution to Pakistan’s problems?
Published 26 Apr, 2015 07:43am
In his first novel in a decade, Kazuo Ishiguro uses elements of drama and fantasy but his storytelling leaves much ...
Published 26 Apr, 2015 07:43am
Tracing the roots and origins of Urdu
Published 26 Apr, 2015 07:43am
The former CIA director’s memoir chronicles machinations and maneuverings at the centre of power
Published 19 Apr, 2015 07:42am
In a recent book, Rashid’s children talk about the poet’s family life and his involvement in the Khaksar Movement
Updated 26 Apr, 2015 07:27am
Megalithic clusters found in Meghalaya, India, reveal a link between the language and history of the Khasi community
Published 19 Apr, 2015 07:42am
By Sameen Amer
Paolo Giordano’s novel explores the psychological toll of combat on a platoon of Italian soldiers
Updated 04 Jul, 2015 08:40pm
In The Colonel Who Would Not Repent, Salil Tripathi writes on Bangladesh’s independence
Published 19 Apr, 2015 07:42am
Rukmini Devi transformed the world of classical dance in India
Published 12 Apr, 2015 07:25am
Syed Rafiq Hussain’s significant contribution to Urdu literature cannot be overlooked despite his brief career
Updated 29 Aug, 2015 03:14pm
Mohsin Hamid’s collection of essays provide insight into the author’s evolving body of work
Published 12 Apr, 2015 07:25am
An emerging group of British Pakistani young adult fiction writers are contributing an alternative voice
Published 12 Apr, 2015 07:25am
A house that cooks and cleans and a prisoner who doesn’t die form part of Headley and Howard’s collaborative work
Published 12 Apr, 2015 07:25am
In The Arch and the Butterfly, a father confronts the meaning of his life in the wake of his son’s death
Published 12 Apr, 2015 07:25am
Asghar Nadeem Syed’s latest anthology of poems is thought-provoking and open to interpretation
Published 12 Apr, 2015 07:25am
The struggle for hegemony between Sunni and Shia forces, Patrick Cockburn argues, threatens to transform the Middle East
Updated 01 May, 2016 02:46pm
Letters analysed by the writer provide insight into the relationship between the poet and the Nawabs of Rampur
Published 05 Apr, 2015 07:27am
Emma Healey’s prize-winning novel lives up to its hype
Published 05 Apr, 2015 07:27am
A judge finds herself questioning the very basis of her life in Ian McEwan’s latest offering
Published 05 Apr, 2015 07:27am
Three cases in the past decade bring to light the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions regarding environmental rights
Published 05 Apr, 2015 07:27am
A travelogue writer discovers her love for the country’s great literary figures
Published 05 Apr, 2015 07:27am
By Jakob Steiner
Published 29 Mar, 2015 06:47am
On the world’s first written piece of creative literature‘[The Land] Between Two Rivers’, and this is indeed...
Published 29 Mar, 2015 06:47am
Is the hype around Fatima’s Bhutto’s latest work justified?
Updated 30 Mar, 2015 11:48am
Mid-Wicket Tales traces the evolution of Test cricket
Published 29 Mar, 2015 06:47am
Excessive use of pesticides in developing countries has led to health and environmental problems
Published 29 Mar, 2015 06:47am
Hassan Blasim’s short stories capture the grim reality of a conflict-ravaged Iraq
Updated 04 Jul, 2015 08:36pm
The language in the digital world
Published 29 Mar, 2015 06:47am
In his latest work, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi brilliantly spins stories of
18th- and 19th-century Urdu literati
Published 22 Mar, 2015 06:43am
Writers are individuals whose deepest attachment is not to their country or to a sociopolitical group but to art
Published 22 Mar, 2015 06:43am
Carthage explores the psychological trauma of a post-war American nation
Published 22 Mar, 2015 06:43am
Whip-smart and funny, the writer was adored by his Pakistani fans
Published 22 Mar, 2015 06:43am
In Claire North’s time travel novel, an immortal finds purpose
Published 22 Mar, 2015 06:43am
In his latest novel, Ben Okri asks what it is to live life
Published 22 Mar, 2015 06:43am
THE great Intizar Husain will complete his ninth decade of life on the winter solstice of this year.
Published 15 Mar, 2015 06:35am
Any ordinary citizen of Karachi would be able to immediately relate to the gloomy description at the outset of the book
Published 15 Mar, 2015 06:35am
In this column I examine some of the key feminist essays of the last four decades
Published 15 Mar, 2015 06:35am
Following a car accident, Frank wakes up in a hospital with a bout of amnesia.
Updated 04 Jul, 2015 08:46pm
Amis weaves a bleakly realist narrative that shows his readers the soul of that time.
Published 15 Mar, 2015 06:35am
The book’s absolute silence on the American policy of promoting militancy is something that will put a few readers off
Published 15 Mar, 2015 06:35am
Policymakers often tend to leave out aspects that affect women; hence an awareness of a gendered view is necessary.
Published 15 Mar, 2015 06:35am
Ikramullah is a realist. While describing things he never cares to be romantic. Such is the art of this novelist.
Published 15 Mar, 2015 06:35am
ELEVEN-year-old Triss wakes up one day to find that she can’t remember everything she should be able to. Of ...
Published 08 Mar, 2015 06:58am
THE world’s oldest known cookbooks rest in the archives of the Yale Babylonian Collection at Yale University....
Published 08 Mar, 2015 06:58am
PAKISTAN is not new to Jürgen Wasim Frembgen. He has visited the country many times and written at least five books...
Published 08 Mar, 2015 06:58am
The following excerpt is taken from the chapter, ‘Paid News: Cocktail of Media, Business and Politics’THE issue...
Published 08 Mar, 2015 06:58am
THE late Aziz Ahmad is mainly known as a distinguished Urdu novelist and short story writer. In fact, he was far ...
Published 08 Mar, 2015 06:58am
By Chishty Mujahid
Published 08 Mar, 2015 06:58am
IN an age dominated by ‘religious terror’, when so many kill in the name of God, it can be difficult for the...
Published 08 Mar, 2015 06:58am
THIS year’s LLF paid a great deal of attention to what cartoonist-journalist Joe Sacco calls “the seams of...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
By SABA IJAZ INDIA, USA, China and Bangladesh — these are the four countries which remain the centre of most...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
By Muhammad Hassan Haider
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
LATE Mulla Wahidi was counted among the few grand old men of pre-Partition Delhi. In 1947, after Partition, he...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
THIS time of the year is literary festival season, and cricket season, and following close on the heels of the...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
ON comparing this year’s LLF from the previous years, one thing stands out in prominence. This year, there were a...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
“You can tell [a story] in a dead and lifeless way or you can tell it as a story of human beings interacting with...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
By Saba Ijaz
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
WHEN Naseeruddin Shah comes to town, and the LLF extends you an open invitation to come and hear him speak at the...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
THE city is a contested space, drawn and redrawn by its denizens; and the tension that emerges out of these...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
In the Indian Subcontinent, the last quarter was a main watershed in the history of British colonisation.
Published 23 Feb, 2015 12:16pm
Speaking of art in Pakistan is akin to discussing philosophical concepts.
Published 23 Feb, 2015 12:16pm
An Isolated Incident is the first novel by US-based writer, essayist, literary critic and book reviewer, Soniah Kamal.
Published 23 Feb, 2015 12:16pm
Zari Zoon’s is a world torn asunder by tragedy on an inconceivable scale; by a barbaric, deliberate human act.
Published 23 Feb, 2015 12:10pm
Where literary fiction meanders on, graphic novels bring the party to the reader.
Published 23 Feb, 2015 12:05pm
