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
A novel examining human relationships through literary translations
Jean-Paul Sartre’s letters are candid and full of yearning to be with the women in his life as they are equally full of life, packed with everyday...
George Saunders’ Tenth of December has been received well by critics and readers. So, I decided to give it a shot, putting aside my resistance...
Not too long ago in these very pages I had commented on the way a writer had handled violence, women, love and desire in his short fiction,...
Sometime last year I received Naseer Ahmed Cheema’s collection of short stories Soymber. I had begun the book with the intention of writing a...
Modern novelist with a political consciousness is a self-conscious beast. While Kannan Arunasalam laments in his poignant essay ‘The...
