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A trailblazing writer

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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 7

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...

02.11.2024 2

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 1

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 4

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 3

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

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