Kamila Shamsie and Pankaj Mishra discuss the absence of political anger in Western literature and why we shouldn’t be so quick to condemn writers like Mo Yan.
The cultural historian on the rhetoric of freedom, bossy white women, and the prospects of beating patriarchy by 2040.
Captivated by an image of an atom bomb falling on Japan, Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie asks American writers why “Your soldiers will come to our lands, but your novelists won’t.”
Can a small group of reformers modernize Pakistan’s schools?