The next chapter for Islamabad’s biggest bookstore
Rob Nordland at the New York Times opens his recent piece on Islamabad’s Saeed Book Bank with an indelible image. After his father died, Ahmad Saeed took over the office on the ground… Read more »
UNESCO study points to a “revolution in reading” in developing countries, thanks to mobile devices
For their study, “Reading in the Mobile Era,” UNESCO conducted surveys in seven developing countries and found that mobile devices can be an important factor in fostering literacy around the… Read more »
Book party for Malala canceled in Pakistan
Yesterday, the city of Peshawar, Pakistan was supposed to host a book launch event for teenage activist Malala Yousafzai’s book I Am Malala. The memoir by the young advocate for women’s education… Read more »
Greg Mortenson goes on Today to apologize for Three Cups of Tea scandal
For the first time since agreeing to pay his own charity back one million dollars, bestselling author and apparent serial exaggerator Greg Mortenson agreed to sit down for an interview.… Read more »
I Am Malala banned in Pakistan’s private schools
Zarar Khan reported for the Associated Press this weekend (picked up here by the Boston Globe) that Malala Yousafzai’s memoir, I Am Malala, has been been in private schools across… Read more »
To be and not to have been: kill lists and poetry
When a writer or a translator strips a well-known work down to its essence, as Alice Oswald had done with The Iliad in Memorial, the narrative takes on almost new meaning. In… Read more »