Arsalan is a writer currently residing in Karachi.
In this short Japanese novel, Murata infects us with an unassuming, but resounding alienation
The charm of a letter often lies in the simplicity of the process, than the elegance of the final product
Unlike other existential novels, Hotel Silence doesn’t meander in the avenues of futility. It’s not packed with crippling, gripping solitude
Language penetrates every reality, every dream. It’s by choosing our words, by forging our own language, we disappear into the self’s innermost...
In times of crisis, it is common to revert to what we know. There is safety in the familiar. 9/11, Pakistan, literature, novels, and the gaze of the...
The body’s map takes on the map of the world, and the world’s map, becomes the body’s guide
Eve out of Her Ruins is skeletal, tenuously held together, but it is lucid, the writing is erotic, and desire haunts throughout the book
Bandi, an anonymous dissident North Korean writer, risked his life to have his handwritten manuscript leave the country; his short stories look...
The novel, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, can be described as experiential. It is a work of subtle feeling, a meditation on what art is...
A feminist novel whose primary focus is political and not aesthetic or psychological
