A Karachi Caper
Jan 01, 2026
Maha Khan Phillips takes us on a whirlwind, absorbing adventure in her fourth novel, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ.
Mina Malik
Mina Malik is a writer and poet based in Lahore. She is the co-founder of The Peepul Press and prose editor at The Aleph Review.
A Walk on the Wyrd Side: Mahreen Sohailโs Small Scale Sinners
Nov 13, 2025
Mahreen Sohailโs debut book, ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด (A Public Space, 2025), is a collection of short stories that can only be described as deft, surprising and satisfyingly horrible.
In Conversation with Shazaf Fatima Haider
May 12, 2025
The UK-based Pakistani authorโs most recent novel A Woman on a Suitcase revisits marriage and the end of it
Heart Tantrums by Aisha Sarwari
Mar 01, 2025
Sarwari lays it all bare in this clear-eyed memoir about the trials of her marriage, within which the lines between mother, partner, caregiver devolved into a messy blur
A Scandal for the Pages
Jan 13, 2025
Imtiaz and Masood-Khan have not only painstakingly recreated the Mustafa Zaidi murder case in their book Society Girl, but also the social milieu of Karachi and Lahore in the 70s
