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.

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