Terminator: Attack of the Drone
Mohsin Hamid’s haunting and vivid story merges reality and science fiction, narrating the struggles of a few survivors hunted by machines which fly overhead in a nameless barren land.
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i wait for images to crystallize
From our ninth issue, a haunting poem by Spotlight Poet Ilona Yusuf
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Author’s Prayer / Dua-e-Sukhnoor
From our ninth issue, Ilyas Babar Awan’s version of ‘Author’s Prayer’ is the first Urdu translation of Ilya Kaminsky’s work.
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To Reality and Beyond!
In this essay, Senior Articles Editor Aaron Grierson writes about freedom in the digital age and just what it means in the ever-expanding Information Age.
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Introduction to the Pakistan Writers Feature
Literary critic and editor Muneeza Shamsie writes about the talents featured in this issue – a rich tapestry of contemporary Pakistani poets and authors.
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Lucky Vikki
Part of our special feature on contemporary Pakistani writers in the ninth issue, Muhammad Umar Memon’s piece translated from the Urdu.
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Manto’s Nuances of Freedom
Features Editor Sana Hussain writes of Pakistan’s arguably most controversial writer in Urdu and how the troubled writer coped with 1947’s partition from India.
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Literature & Censorship: A Tainted History
From our eighth issue, Sana Hussain writes about the frayed but still consistent relationship between creation and censorship.
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Adapting to the Classics
In which the writer argues films, however refined a medium, cannot (and never will) hold a candle to the novels upon which they are based.
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Belonging & Identity Through Literature
In the seventh issue’s cover feature, Sana Hussain writes about the constant quest for belonging in literature from the Lost Generation up to and including the twenty first century.
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