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Musings on migration

Musings on migration
05.04.2025 8

The News on Sunday

Taha Kehar

NON-FICTION: RETURN TO STUDENT LIFE

A ‘standalone sequel’ collection of college stories by Nadya Chishty-Mujahid draws readers into familiar territory but is more...

23.03.2025 20

Dawn (Magazines)

Taha Kehar

Celebrating literary milestones

15.03.2025 20

The News on Sunday

Taha Kehar

FESTIVAL: CARNIVAL OF WORDS

The 16th Karachi Literature Festival was held over three days from February 7-9. An author of two novels assesses the annual...

16.02.2025 30

Dawn (Magazines)

Taha Kehar

FICTION: POWER AND POPULISM

A gripping tale about prevailing political realities, Omar Shahid Hamid’s sixth novel is a playful political satire about power

19.01.2025 20

Dawn (Magazines)

Taha Kehar

A trailblazing writer

11.01.2025 10

The News on Sunday

Taha Kehar

A passionate revolt

D omestic fiction is often believed to be detached from public realities. Those who harbour such cynical assumptions tend to forget that the...

14.12.2024 10

The News on Sunday

Taha Kehar

FICTION: THE CHECKMATES OF MOURNING

Intermezzo By Sally Rooney Faber and Faber ISBN: 9780571365470  432pp. Grief is an all-encompassing emotion that most of us are woefully...

01.12.2024 4

Dawn (Magazines)

Taha Kehar

The shades of grief

N early four decades after it hit the shelves, Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen still stands out for its evocation of love, bereavement and loneliness in...

02.11.2024 5

The News on Sunday

Taha Kehar

A temporary reprieve

I n The Witch of Blackbird Pond, American author Elizabeth George Speare refers to October as the month when “any wonderful unexpected thing might...

26.10.2024 4

The News on Sunday

Taha Kehar

POETRY/FICTION: THE RESIDUE OF CONVERSATIONS

Last of the Letters By Fatima Ijaz Bottlecap Press 24pp. Once billed as avenues to promote ‘street literature’, chapbooks have been lapped up by...

06.10.2024 10

Dawn (Magazines)

Taha Kehar

FICTION: LAHIRI RETURNS TO THE SHORT

Roman Stories By Jhumpa Lahiri Picador ISBN: 978-1035017577 224pp. For a little over a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri has...

25.08.2024 4

Dawn (Magazines)

Taha Kehar

Notes on a bookshelf

M y bookshelf is an aesthetic nightmare. Far from being a picturesque Zoom backdrop, it is a cluttered space, a shanty settlement of books of all...

27.07.2024 4

The News on Sunday

Taha Kehar