“Anarkali, or Six Early Deaths in Lahore”—fiction by Farah Ahamed
Farah Ahamed finds in the unsung working class Anarkali a heroine for the ages.
Muslim identity
On Women and Gods: How Three Female Clerics Came Together
Laëtitia Soula talks to an imam, a pastor and a rabbi, all women, who sat down to write a book together melding feminism and religion.
Allah and the American Dream
Rayyan Al-Shawaf reviews The Bad Muslim Discount, the second novel from Syed Masood, but isn't sure he likes its happy ending.
Ayad Akhtar on Capitalism, Literature & the U.S. Decline
A candid conversation with the Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright of "Disgraced" and author of the novel "Homeland Elegies."