Open Brackets
Sep 30, 2026
Rupture Anthem, Hera Naguibโs debut collection of poems, is at once a resolute, beautiful roll-call of the things that break us, and a love letter to the ways we learn to bloom again.
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. Her bestselling debut chapbook of poems, Rogue Planet, came out in 2026 and she is represented by Peters, Fraser and Dunlop in the UK.
Private Traps
Apr 15, 2026
For Mina Malik, Kiran Desaiโs Booker nominated novel ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ข ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐บ โa 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
Jan 01, 2026
Maha Khan Phillips takes us on a whirlwind, absorbing adventure in her fourth novel, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ.
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
