Originally published on Bookwitty Maha Khan Phillips is the author of Beautiful from this Angle and The Mystery of the Aagnee Ruby. She is a financial journalist and the editor of Professional Investor Magazine in the UK, where she lives part of the year, the rest of the time she spends in Karachi. Her novels … Continue reading Pakistani Author Maha Khan Phillips on her New Novel, The Curse of the Mohenjodaro
Pakistan’s publishing industry is operating offline. Editors, book agents and publishing houses are few in number, making it difficult for young people to get their work across to a large audience. According to the ISBN International, there are only 2,277 registered publishers all over Pakistan whereas in the USA alone, there are more than 400,000 … Continue reading Daastan: Redefining the Foundations of Pakistan’s Publishing Industry
Few socio-political shifts have seen such immediate, impassioned literary attention as the events that shook Russia in 1917. One hundred years have passed, yet many of the poems and stories wrung from this historic moment remain as able to speak to us as they were a century ago. In 1917: Stories and Poems from the … Continue reading In ‘1917,’ the Feverish Poetry of Russia’s Revolutions
Global Literature in Libraries Initiative 