Literature

Imagining the past is no mean feat. Especially if it is the remote past. Even more so if it is...

I used to be invited by the Staff College at Quetta to give a talk on the evolution of warfare,...

In the year 2017, I bought Letters to a Young Poet during travel to Lahore for work. I was not...

It was quite a surprising yet pleasant feel when I read the translation of Gurdial Singh’s novel Adh Chahnni Raat...

Sometimes I wonder that if I were to be teleported to the time when some historical event was in progress,...

When studying African literature, this quotation from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart sticks out in my mind: “When they came,...

Recently, the 225th birth anniversary of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, the greatest of classical modern Urdu poets, was celebrated in...

Although D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) lived in the period commonly designated as modernist, he is not usually considered a typical...

Manto was a madman in the grip of the pen which he could not put down, which made all his...

There are books for which you invent a reaction for obvious reasons and thus they are boring and leaden, and...

Nearly two centuries have passed since John Keats, one of the most celebrated lyrical poets of English literature, died of...

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes was published in 1984. The book is hard to categorise in any one genre. Ostensibly...

Don DeLillo is one of the major writers from the USA who, through their writings, depicted the postmodern condition in...

Dur e Aziz Amna’s book succeeds on many counts, its beautiful prose, its readability and most importantly her distinct, strong...

Marie-Henri Beyle, better known as Stendhal, was a celebrated 19th-century French writer who is said to have had over a...

On Saturday December 3, a book launch was held at Tagh’eer Creative Space for ‘Wolfie’, a children’s book written by...

Spirits Rebellious by Kahlil Gibran is a marvelous historical fiction novella about the close relationship between religious people and capitalists...

In one of your interviews, you spoke about the power of literature – be it in its broadest sense newspapers...

On November 19, Lightstone Publishers released a new book, From My Wounded Heart With Love by Anja Caspary, a translation...

Although an unconventional read, I was surprised at the ambitions and imaginative force depicted by Shehan Karunatilaka – the float...

The year 2020 began with new hope, for every New Year is meant for more new resolutions. But the sooner...

Author Muhammad Ali Bandial has lived an interesting and colorful life which resulted in him authoring his debut novel this...

The White Lie is a dystopian political thriller. Following the Foreign Minister Shahzain Bugti and his right-hand man Hasan Murtaza...

Paris, the legendary city of light, has been celebrated in numerous books and poems. Phrases such as “we will always...

Dr Akbar Ahmed will be writing his memoirs for TFT about his eventful life and multiple pursuits. This is the...

Translator’s Introduction: September 25 today marks the 119th birthday of one of the leading Islamist scholars and ideologues of the...