Mina Malik

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.

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Private Traps

Mina Malik

Apr 15, 2026

For Mina Malik, Kiran Desaiโ€™s Booker nominated novel ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜“๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜š๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ข ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜š๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜บ โ€”a sweeping saga of love and family that spans generations โ€” is less a traditional novel and more an inventive meander through the lives of its characters. The story is as much about loneliness as it is about the ways in which we puzzle out a life beneath its shadow, caught between desire and fear.

A Karachi Caper

Mina Malik

Jan 01, 2026

Maha Khan Phillips takes us on a whirlwind, absorbing adventure in her fourth novel, ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜”๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ.

A Walk on the Wyrd Side: Mahreen Sohailโ€™s Small Scale Sinners

Mina Malik

Nov 13, 2025

Mahreen Sohailโ€™s debut book, ๐˜š๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜š๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜š๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด (A Public Space, 2025), is a collection of short stories that can only be described as deft, surprising and satisfyingly horrible.

Heart Tantrums by Aisha Sarwari

Mina Malik

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

Mina Malik

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