Author: Areeb Ahmad


  • Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and, in this way, brought them forth. And now we must lose them. Abraham Lincoln repeatedly visited the graveyard where his son Willie, who died at the age…

  • โ€œAnything can happen. Here can be there, then can be now, up can be down, truth can be lies. Everythingโ€™s slip-sliding around and thereโ€™s nothing to hold on to. The whole thing has come apart at the seams.โ€ Published in two parts, 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote remains the most influential work of literature from the Spanish…

  • โ€œIn the first minute following her death, Tequila Leilaโ€™s consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore.โ€ In May of this year, Turkish prosecutors launched an investigation into Elif Shafakโ€™s novels, particularly The Gaze (1999) and Three Daughters of Eve (2016), for charges of obscenity and promoting child abuse.…