How to Become a Successful Pakistani Novelist in Three Not-So-Easy Steps
Mohsin Hamid’s career as a writer has been remarkable and rather unique — he has a surprisingly slender portfolio of three rather short novels published … Read more
Original Poetry by Tasnim Ahmed
blind. What are you, she said. I am human, woman, girl, this is a question I dread. To be molten sugar, caramelized brown is a … Read more
Midnight’s Children: ‘Like Forrest Gump, With Brown People’
For a whole generation of readers, particularly Indians or South Asians, the act of watching the new movie “Midnight’s Children” is always going to be … Read more
A Conversation with Satya Bhabha and Samrat Chakrabarti of ‘Midnight’s Children’
The cinematic production of Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” has, in a sense, been in the cards since the book’s debut in 1981. The epic, magical … Read more
‘Light’ : New Fiction by Mustafa Abubaker
All the lights in my home are off. The snow’s so deep I’m doing lunges in order to get to the door, my breath mimicking … Read more
Original Poetry by Alok Vaid-Menon
In his recent Gandhi Biography “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India,” Joseph Lelyveld includes love letters exchanged between Mahatma Gandhi and a … Read more
Remembering Oscar Winner Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala died Wednesday at the age of 85. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, she moved to India from London after her … Read more
Nadeem Aslam on Google
Last month, FaberBooks published an interview with Nadeem Aslam, the Pakistani-British novelist whose past work includes “Season of the Rainbirds” (1993), “Maps for Lost Lovers” … Read more
Teju Cole: ‘A Good Photograph Is Like a Pinprick’
“On an afternoon of heavy rain when gingko leaves were piled ankle-deep across the sidewalk looking like thousands of little yellow creatures freshly fallen from … Read more
Preeti Kaur, a People’s Poet: Part II
In the first part of her interview with The Aerogram, poet Preeti Kaur shared what it was like to grow up in California’s San Joaquin … Read more
