Published on 9/10/2017 | Issue No: 5

Francesca Recchia

• Ernesto Che Guevara, Guerrilla Warfare, BNP publishing, 2007.
• Mohsin Hamid, Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London. 
• Rifat Fareed, “The sadness of Occupation”, Al Jazeera, 1 October 2017

Asim Rafiqui

• The New European Disorder Or How The New World Order Gifted Us Our Present
• “Where does your comedy come from?”
• How to complicate Israel Or The necessity of seeing closer those we think we know.
• “And here is another example of the above.”
• “The wars we loved Or Wasn’t it more fun when they were just killing each other?”
• “How to fashionably socially conscious Or Virtue Signalling as the new social status indicator.”
• “Jennifer Egan is back with another, and I need say no more.”
• “We all love a feel-good protest, particularly if it erases the problem that required the protest!”
• “The dangerous brown man, the useful brown woman, and the exigencies of neoliberal capital.”
• “Bashing Muslims as a profitable enterprise, and a fast-growing new market product.”
• “This is a terrible piece of writing and analysis, but read it to understand how liberal superiority still exists.”
• “The wounds that come wrapped as gifts.”

Suchitra Vijayan

• Ants Among Elephants by Sujatha Gidla
• Fictional Truth By Michael Riffaterre.
• What Salman Rushdie’s new book, The Golden House, says about the bankrupting of magical realism.