What if Uncle Tom’s Cabin had never been published? What if John Steinbeck had never written his revolutionary novel, The Grapes of Wrath? And imagine if The Jungle by Upton Sinclair had never gained ...

The "9th Adab Festival Pakistan" had an engaging daylong session highlighting the role played by literature in building a harmonious society on Monday. The event was hosted by the Institute of ...

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) has named bestselling novelist Elif Shafak as its new president. Her appointment marks ...

Karachi’s literature aficionados look forward to the winter months when the sun shines a little less harshly and the city ...

Storytelling has long been a fundamental part of human culture, not only in Vedic period but in recent years it has also emerged as a powerful therapeutic tool. Used in counseling, psychology, and ...

Whether and how to incorporate rehabilitation into incarceration is an issue that society has grappled with for centuries and still struggles with today. In his dissertation, graduate student Matthew ...

According to an Ohio State University professor, literary devices invented over the centuries are just as vital for improving the lives of humans as advances in science. Angus Fletcher, an English ...

The PEN World Voices Festival will bring together hundreds of writers, among them Abdulrazak Gurnah, Alejandro Zambra and Gary Shteyngart, and will include an address by Andrey Kurkov, a Ukrainian ...