Books & Authors
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Of other worlds
Sunday, September 05, 2010
In the essay he has noted that the trend towards memoir as a literary trope is ruining fiction. The expediency of self-revelation
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Fiction: Web of intrigue
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Fortunately, the novel’s plot is better thought out than its title and instead of treading down the familiar pathways of epic love
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All or nothing
Sunday, September 05, 2010
The author, Shahnawaz Khar, has created a set of characters, wealthy as well as poor, who are linked to each other through the party
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Non-Fiction/self-help: Eye of the storm
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Iftikhar Malik remains both faithfully literal and incisively interpretative in his approach to the subject. He scrupulously avoids
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Fiction: Words of wisdom
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Inspirations, Coelho’s latest work, sheds light on the author’s own life path, particularly the journey that made him the bestselling writer
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Great expectations
Sunday, September 05, 2010
There is a world of prenatal literature out there begging to be purchased, borrowed or handed down. There are aisles upon aisles of books
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Excerpt: A troubled reign
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Humayun had lived under the heavy shadow of his father and though he was successful on the battlefield whilst Babur ruled
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Non-Fiction: At crisis level
Sunday, September 05, 2010
In Pakistan the rights of women are often denied in the guise of tradition or interpretation of religion so that its suits our patriarchal society.
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Urdu Literature: Lovingly yours
Sunday, September 05, 2010
However, these letters reveal something which is rather surprising and unexpected. Rashid, who had during his literary career rebelled
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Literarybuzz: The writer tycoon
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Earning $70m of his own over the year that ended June 1, Patterson is firmly on the top of Forbes’ list of the world’s
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Column: Scars of the stateless
Sunday, September 05, 2010
The author is Susan Abulhawa, a Palestinian now settled in the US. Abulhawa comes from a family, which after being displaced
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Buzz/excerpt: Frost via Sartre
Sunday, August 29, 2010
This rigorous dialectic is a key feature of the poetic imagination of Robert Frost. His works communicate his conviction that choice...
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Pushto literature: The will to change
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Hailing from a Bukhari Sadaat family, Bano was born on June 18, 1938 in a village called Sufiad Dheri in Peshawar...
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Column: An original idea
Sunday, August 29, 2010
But I have before me two recently reprinted collections, one of short stories and the other of poems, which stand...
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The artful city
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Marg, sponsored by the Tatas, is a quarterly hardbound publication, which focuses on any one aspect of Indian visual art...
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