Literature

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...

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...