Category: Arts

Karachi is Volatile, But London is Bland

Kamila Shamsie’s new novel, “Best of Friends” chosen as a book of 2022 by The…

The Photographic Search for True Pakistan

Girls and kids are us – in Islamabad: Irshad Salim, Karachi. Pics and videos using…

Dr. Lucas Inventor of The Cloud Ends Up in ‘Greeneria’: Novel By Jamil Usman

Jamil Usman’s latest book “The Cloud” is an English novel for children. It’s a science…

BOOK: The Song of the Cell

Explaining difficult ideas in terms that are both straightforward and interesting GOOGLE READS: From the…

Art World to Mark 50 Years Since Pablo Picasso’s Death

The art world has mobilized to stage “an unprecedented” 42 exhibitions marking 50 years since…

How Mathematics Changed Me

If one is inclined toward mysteries, mathematics can lead one to the conclusion that behind…

How Arab Filmmakers Investigate the Desert and the Peninsula

Film curator, writer and academic Roisin Tapponi looks at how contemporary Arabic filmmakers use thirst…

What We Owe the Future

Scott Alexander in Astral Codex Ten: If the point of publishing a book is to…

Nayyara Noor Renders Faiz Poem on Former East Pakistan (Video)

Nayyara Noor renders her voice with music to the poem written by Faiz Ahmed Faiz…

Longtermism: The New Moral Mathematics

In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than…

Genghis Khan and the Mongols

9 Things You May Not Know About Genghis Khan: He installed one of the first…

Warhol’s Mao Turns Fifty

Billy Anania at Art In America: In 1982, a fifty-four-year-old Andy Warhol visited China for…