Literature

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...

Shantha Mohan, a global technical leader, entrepreneur, and three-time author, talks to us about her latest book, Leadership Lessons With...

The title story of Julien’s short story collection Derrida Haramda! introduces us to Shahid Wirk (or, as he is lovingly...

Sara Danial: Let’s first talk about your book, The Begum and the Dastan. How difficult was documenting the lives of...

Views and Reviews by Ammar Ali Qureshi (Folio Books) As Pakistan battles for survival, it is important for us to...

Soniah Kamal is an award-winning Pakistani-American novelist, essayist and public speaker based in the US. Her first novel An Isolated...

Stories of the True is a stellar collection of stories by the great Tamil writer Jeyamohan, who is known to...

Before he became a novelist, Osman Haneef worked as a tech entrepreneur, strategy consultant and diplomatic adviser. He was selected...

The smooth ochre sands of the Thar reflect in Marvi’s lambent golden eyes; she knows not yet of the distant...

The strip of land between India and Pakistan is called the Wagah-Attari border. This is No Man’s Land. On either...

There is a fascinating episode in Anna Karenina, featuring two upper class Russian women, who are shown having a curious...

The novel Rohzin, or The Melancholy of the Soul, by Rahman Abbas, features Mumbai (previously Bombay) as the protagonist where...

The first line of Mohsin Hamid’s latest novel The Last White Man foretells a dystopian universe and, in a way,...

From reluctant initial steps towards finding its own idiom as well as a politics that picks itself up and graduates...

Letter_Rutgers Academics from a wide variety of backgrounds, in a letter addressed to the Chancellor at Rutgers University (Newark, NJ)...

Those who forget history are condemned to relive it. It is interesting to see how one can learn so much...

Sara Suleri Goodyear, nee Sara Suleri, one of four daughters born to Pakistan Times editor and journalist Z. A. Suleri,...

The second edition of Ananke’s Women in Literature Festival will be held digitally on the 31st of March and the...

A few months ago, I came across a publishing house that had just released Ephemera by Peerzada Salman as an...

For those of us who live in Karachi, we are definitely acquainted with and have spotted Peerzada Salman at a...

Terrorists armed with nuclear weapons are the bad actors in this novel. The dramatisation is so compelling that the novel...

The details of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s literary activities would merit an entire book. For fear of length, an extremely brief discussion...

The Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women has announced that the award for 2021 goes to writer Alia Ahmed...

It was great to read a few days ago that the Lahore Arts Council is planning to celebrate the 2019...

Punjab has a rich literary tradition in Sufi poetry. The Punjabi language has a uniquely candid way to express the...