The memoirs of late actor Mathew Perry have him talking about his troubled life that drove him to drug and alcohol addiction
Published 15 Sep, 2024 09:25am
Muhammad Ali Siddiqi delves into more of his Evergreens from his reading shelf in an eighth installment
Published 15 Sep, 2024 08:58am
Autumn, 1979. At a church in Hammersmith, [London,] Ted Hughes reads from his collection Crow, which my friend buys...
Published 15 Sep, 2024 08:34am
A book that attempts to give context to Imran Khan’s political trajectory in Pakistan’s dynamic class and political landscape with
Published 08 Sep, 2024 09:45am
A retiree’s recollections of the many different aspects of the Karachi that was and is, along with the inhabitants of this city
Published 08 Sep, 2024 09:41am
A visually striking coffee-table book that delves into the broader socio-political implications of architectural design through...
Published 08 Sep, 2024 09:38am
Last time I wrote about learning Urdu, with a special focus on Ismat Chughtai’s writing. For me, 2024 has been the...
Published 08 Sep, 2024 09:32am
A satirical Urdu novella tells the story of a fantastical planet where animals with various human characteristics reign supreme
Published 01 Sep, 2024 06:31am
A book by a veteran educationist provides an overview of historical perspectives on teaching and teacher education and argues the
Published 01 Sep, 2024 06:31am
I begin with the confession that this column is limited to being a family memory. It is about my maternal uncle and...
Published 01 Sep, 2024 06:31am
A book about Mairaj Muhammad Khan by his friend delves into the often-volatile life and times of the leftist politician and...
Published 01 Sep, 2024 06:31am
Jhumpa Lahiri’s long-awaited return to the short-story genre is a moving collection about the lives of foreigners from various
Published 25 Aug, 2024 08:52am
A translator reflects on what she gained from a pioneering gathering of translators of South Asian languages
Published 25 Aug, 2024 08:51am
A one-day mini Adab Festival offered those attending plenty of insights and thought-provoking perspectives about books and issues
Published 25 Aug, 2024 08:50am
Learned bodies in arts and literature exist for the advancement and promotion of these disciplines, and everywhere ...
Published 25 Aug, 2024 08:49am
It is invariably a good sign when a writer does not allow tragedy and adversity to daunt him or her to the point where one’s...
Published 18 Aug, 2024 10:39am
Elif Shafak’s latest novel is a story about three lives across time and space, connected by history, myth, experience and a drop
Published 18 Aug, 2024 10:30am
A collection of articles looks at Pakistan through a socio-cultural lens
Published 18 Aug, 2024 10:24am
Looking for a great read to take on holiday with you? We had our experts review some of the hottest books of 2024…
Published 18 Aug, 2024 10:15am
In the early years of post-Iqbal history of Urdu poetry, one finds two distinct streams flowing alongside each other — the two...
Published 18 Aug, 2024 10:01am
Khan Academy’s Salman Khan pens a book about the potential of Artificial Intelligence to make quality, personalised education...
Published 11 Aug, 2024 09:22am
A slim, debut collection of Urdu short stories and pen sketches is a smooth and pleasurable read, bereft of abstruse vocabulary...
Published 11 Aug, 2024 09:16am
A collection of orally transmitted Baloch folktales, fables and riddles, essays about folklore, and stories from around the world
Published 11 Aug, 2024 09:13am
Waanyi writer Alexis Wright and her magnum opus Praiseworthy have made history by winning this year’s Miles...
Published 11 Aug, 2024 09:08am
The memoirs of Salman Faruqui, regarded often as one of Pakistan’s ‘super-bureaucrats’ till his retirement, shed light on many...
Published 04 Aug, 2024 09:16am
An English translation of a Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai novella puts an end to the general amnesia about the worth and significance
Published 04 Aug, 2024 09:11am
An illustrated and translated version of Allama Iqbal’s Payaam-i-Mashriq opens up the great poet’s Persian work even for the...
Published 04 Aug, 2024 09:08am
It is perplexing that Muhammad Husain Azad (1830-1910), author of the scintillating, so-called ‘first history of Urdu poetry’,
Updated 05 Aug, 2024 05:14pm
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, a Sri Lankan novel reads like a devastating and unputdownable memoir of a woman doctor...
Published 28 Jul, 2024 08:37am
