The writer is a librarian and lecturer in San Francisco. His most recent work is Cafe Le Whore and Other Stories. He blogs at moazzamsheikh.blogspot.com
I can’t think of a single Pakistani film that left me as dazed, weeping inwardly, as Bin Roye. I have had time to ponder. My thoughts I lay bare
Very few writers even dare to test a reader’s credulity. Anu Kumar stretches it, almost risking collapse, in her latest collection of short stories
That’s what friendship for me is all about -- enriching the lives around you with music, literature, and art
Three prose pieces in Aaj where tone assumes a centrality
Twelve fairly decent stories with occasional moments of brilliance
The novel suffers from a lack of focus -- slipping from feminist to a novel about transition to life under British rule to one about general...
There’s nothing in modern American fiction that even comes close to the way Hassan Blasim exposes the mess Iraqi lives have become, mixing black...
Freedom of speech is a worthy goal, tolerance a golden virtue. But it helps to remember that France is like any other nation state full of...
An important step towards calling attention to the indefensible silence in the American literary scene on the state of Israel
Najm Hosain Syed’s Sheesh Mahal Di Vaar -- a brief introduction
