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Desire, Defiance, And Widowhood: A Review Of ‘Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows’ By Balli Kaur Jaswal

Erotica is often relegated to the margins of literature. It is considered profane, excessive, and unserious; a form that indulges but does not interrogate. However, Balli Kaur Jasw...

The Hit Erotica Writers Outwitting Nigeria’s Religious Censors

Zealous officials burned their predecessors’ romance novels. Now, young Muslim women in northern Nigeria publish their erotic books in installments on WhatsApp.

Chennai: Ladies’ Night Released in City

Ladies’ Night is a collection of 17 stories and a novella, covering genres ranging from love stories and social drama to science fiction and magic realism.

New York Times Article Highlights The WhatsApp Eroticists of Northern Nigeria Making History 

In 2009, officials in Kano staged a public bonfire of romance novels. Western Romance paperbacks went into the flames on the grounds of moral indecency, and for a time, the message...

Heartbreak, humour and a 'committee'

Hira Mani, Zhalay Sarhadi and Hani Taha deliver a culturally rooted comic twist

THE HOUSEMAID Author Freida McFadden’s Identity Revealed

Plus, Nigerian Erotica writers publishing in installments on WhatsApp, the impact of book banning on children's and YA books, and more.

Pakistani Literature That Refuses to Pigeonhole Its Setting

Both Mahreen Sohail and Dur e Aziz Amna’s work reflects a turning point in Pakistani literature: a move toward portraying lives as they are, unburdened by Pakistan as an ontologica...

That Word-of-Mouth Magic: INTERPRETER OF MALADIES by Jhumpa Lahiri

This debut short story collection by an unknown writer become one of the most significant publishing successes of the 20th century.

A love story you can walk into

The Museum of Innocence is a love story trapped in memory, where obsession turns into archive

Womanhood And Love Are Political: An Analysis Of Srishti Chaudhary’s Lallan Sweets

What Lallan Sweets depicts excellently is the deconditioning of the patriarchal consciousness that women are trapped by, which keeps them from choosing themselves or putting themse...

Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly audiobook review – smart reflections on love, desire and power

This heartfelt story of attraction and friendship, shortlisted for the Women’s prize for fiction, is sensitively read by Dan BottomleyThe debut novel from Rozie Kelly – shortlisted...

How 21-Year-Old Asfhan Qureshi Is Redefining Romance In Literature

At L.A. college campuses, Punjabi music is opening doors to heritage long kept closed

Across the United States, a generation of young Americans of Indian and Pakistani origin — the children and grandchildren of immigrants — are using Punjabi music as a bridge back t...

Reading a Pakistani author’s 30-year-old novel helped me understand my parents’ views on intermarriage

When I was a kid, I was haunted by the threat of my parents rejecting me if I married a non-Jew. Raised on Disney movies and song lyrics about soulmates, I spent almost every momen...

Reading ‘Queerly Beloved’ Made Me Want To Celebrate Life In Little Ways

There’s a particular kind of fatigue that comes with constantly encountering queer stories shaped by grief—where love is fragile, fleeting, or punished. It makes you wonder, quietl...

I Had a Neighbor Whose Husband Constantly Shouted

“Women, in Color” by Neela Vaswani 1. I had a neighbor whose husband shouted. I suppose the husband was my neighbor too, but I didn’t want him to be. Once home from work, he let lo...

'Begum Jaan' highlights loneliness, lost fame on Karachi stage

Story centres on performer once celebrated for her beauty, talent

Fae-Bulous BIPOC and/or Queer Romantasies

These diverse romantasies have magical heists, Chinese and Hindu mythology-inspired magic systems, and much more.

Elizabeth Strout is back with a new novel: Read our review in this week's Literary Fiction along with Uprising by Tahmim...

Claire Allfree reviews the best new Literary Fiction out now.

What We Carry: Spring 2026

A History of Burning by Janika Oza (McClelland & Stewart)“The words hung between them like the past, which was not some distant place but a continuous story, woven through skin...

राजस्थान में अंतरजातीय विवाह और जीवित बेटियों के मृत्यु भोज की कहानी

राजस्थान में अंतरजातीय विवाह और जीवित बेटियों के मृत्यु भोज की कहानी परंपरा और स्वतंत्रता का टकरावराजस्थान के सामाजिक ढांचे में विवाह केवल दो व्यक्तियों का संबंध नहीं होता, बल्कि य...

'Mrs & Mr Shameem' tackles postpartum depression, toxic masculinity and unconventional love

Saba Qamar, Nauman Ijaz lead drama that dares to go where few Pakistani dramas have gone before

The 'raucous' debut novel set entirely on one epic night out

Sufiyaan Salam has won an award from Stormzy, been nominated for a Bafta and made a video for Elton John.

The Best Books of April, BIPOC Edition

In these BIPOC releases, we get a tale of early 2000s Brooklyn, two timelines in a gothic Japan, a steamy romance with an artist, and more.