Rana Saadullah Khan is a writer from Lahore and Islamabad. His work has been published in Lakeer, Jamhoor, The Aleph Review, as well as through UNESCO Pakistan and by the history education platform, Hashiya.
Jul 18, 2025
Hiromi Kawakami’s Under the Eye of the Big Bird (translated by Asa Yoneda, and long listed for the International Booker Prize 2025) captured the public imagination with its post-apocalyptic narrative of a future depicting humanity’s precarious survival. But is this yet another in a long line of hyped spec-fic works translated from the Japanese, or does it offer greater insight into the genre?
Jun 14, 2025
Satire aims to provoke, but does Percival Everett’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel go far enough?
May 12, 2025
𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘓𝘢𝘮𝘱, the first ever book translated from Kannada shortlisted by the International Booker Prize, is a collection of short stories not bothered with defining and diagnosing the problems of the nation at large, but with the minutiae, with domestic squabbles, with very peculiar anxieties