As crime writing in South Asia catapults forward, Irfan Javed reviews Omar Shahid Hamid's cracking new novel

"… three brilliant white seagulls…" Irfan Javed's moving recollection of his last conversations with the late writer

On this independence day Irfan Javed enumerates some things about Pakistan that give us all hope

Irfan Javed excerpts several anecdotes from Kishwar Naheed's latest non-fiction book

The libertine painter Tassaduq Sohail's life is a tale of rebellion, lust and unbridled creativity. Irfan Javed talks to him...

In long, meandering chats with Irfan Javed, astrologer Ishaque Noor relives a bygone era of courtesanal hierarchies, street entertainers and...

In this candid interview with Irfan Javed, the legendary Urdu writer Abdullah Hussein discusses his disdain for posterity, Manto's drunkenness...

A proliferation of magazines, revelatory non-fiction and greater depth in novel writing were some of the positive takeaways for Urdu...