The author believes all human collectives are oppressive in some ways and uses writing to create tiny fissures of freedom whenever and wherever possible.
Travels across the vastness of Balochistan -- at the risk of being perceived an exploiter by the minority province
A prescriptive book for the professional development vendors
A selection from all his previous books and some new poems, this volume captures the essence of Irfan Malik’s poetic acumen
You have to learn how to not let education kill your creativity, that uneducated, raw Dionysian spirit that is within every unschooled child
For Rizwan Akhtar, Lahore is not just a menagerie of trite exoticisms but also a city which has broken its promises
The simulacrum has become the truth; the world is now a battleground of images. Pakistan has to think of its image in this world
Combine an unstoppable talent for storytelling with an acute sense of social injustice and you get the recent collection of short stories by Ali...
A unique volume of recognisable stories of people who were not at peace throughout their lives, because creative nonfiction is almost nonexistent in...
-- Interview with N. Frank Daniels
Waqas Khwaja transports a culturally unique experience and sensibility into the poems in his recent collection
This global spread of rationality does not mean that poetry is going to disappear. The metaphor is not dead yet
In his debut collection of short stories, Raza Rabbani takes a moral position, deliberately challenging the amoral apathy of contemporary postmodern...
The News on Sunday sat down with Raza Rabbani at his official residence in Islamabad and discussed with him his views on literature and politics.
Writers, teachers, and universities will be the last places where freedom can be imagined, and perhaps preserved
The cultural values overrule the ideological claptrap of the state
A guide for the upcoming fiction writers from Pakistan on what has been done before, providing useful pointers
The seduced worker now wants to simulate the lifestyle of his exploiter and happily gets transformed into a commodity in the process
On a woman’s 20,000-kilometre solo walking journey from Siberia to Laos, Thailand, and then a walk across Australia
The new British Council library will take some time to match its former glory
Away from the world of literary festivals, a fresh addition to the world of anglophone letters from Pakistan
