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Haunted

Kamran Nazeer — 27th August 2009 — Issue 162

My best friend killed himself, but he keeps appearing to me. I don’t believe in ghosts or life after death, but he’s there and I want him gone. That’s why I need you to read my account

Cursed by comfort

Kamran Nazeer — 4th July 2009 — Issue 160 Free entry

The latest generation of American authors are hobbled by ease and self-congratulation

Subject: Books & literature, Short stories

An Asian whitewash

Kamran Nazeer — 23rd November 2008 — Issue 152

Ziauddin Sardar’s latest book touches on many of the most troubling questions at the heart of what it means to be a British Asian in the 21st century. But his blinkered adherence to the politics of resentment means it contains few useful answers

Subject: Books & literature, British society, People & populations

Migration fiction moves on

Kamran Nazeer — 31st August 2008 — Issue 149

The last half century has seen long-distance migration shift from an exceptional to a normal aspect of global life. As Eva Hoffman’s latest novel shows, this new migration is a realm of more subtle traumas and dislocations than the old, yet it remains an impetus for enduring art

Subject: Books & literature, Short stories

Hope in Pakistan

Kamran Nazeer — 29th February 2008 — Issue 143 Free entry

The results of the Pakistani election mean there is a real chance that its competing power blocs could find a lasting accommodation via the constitution

Subject: South & Central Asia

Courage and sorrow

Kamran Nazeer — 28th July 2007 — Issue 136

Gordon Brown’s new book “Courage” is a response to the death of his first child. He has transformed his suffering into a lesson

Subject: Books & literature, British politics

Towards the day

Kamran Nazeer — 30th June 2007 — Issue 135 Free entry

Prospect’s Thomas Pynchon correspondent is battling his way through “Against the Day”—and recording the experience

Subject: Books & literature, Short stories

Prophetic fallacies

Kamran Nazeer — 25th February 2007 — Issue 131

Two works by progressive Muslims—a life of the Prophet and an analysis of Arab identity—reveal contrasting approaches to the history of Islam

Subject: Books & literature, History & heritage, Religion

In praise of Musharraf

Kamran Nazeer — 16th December 2006 — Issue 129 Free entry

Pervez Hoodbhoy’s attack on Musharraf repeats the usual liberal pieties. Musharraf is not perfect, but a democratically elected leader may well be worse

Subject: South & Central Asia