Life’s Too Short Short Story Prize 2010/11

By Aysha Raja The Life’s Too Short Literary Review could never have been possible were it not for the Life’s Too Short Short Story…

KLF: a mixed bag

By Huma Imtiaz When a literary festival’s headliner is author and religious thinker Karen Armstrong, one wonders whether to be amused, or descend into…

Contemporary Pakistani literature in the age of terror

I am posting the synopsis of my paper entitled Silhouetted Silences – contemporary Pakistani literature in the age of terror, that I presented at…

The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Book Review

Mohsin Hamid’s second novel is out. It has made to several bestsellers’ lists and invokes a theme central to our times. I am posting…

Mohsin Hamid on Indo-Pak perceptions

Hamid thinks that India is more jingoistic than Pakistan. There were some interesting moments in the interview as the quote below indicates.   Full…