The Loyalty Protocol
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Road to Chitral
Azhar Abidi
‘I wonder sometimes when this cycle of violence began. When was year zero?’
Leila in the Wilderness
Nadeem Aslam
‘It was almost involuntary: it felt like falling, or like rising in a dream.’
Kashmir’s Forever War
Basharat Peer
‘Yes, the gun was from Pakistan, but the stones are our own. That is our only weapon against the occupation.’
Trying Tripe
Daniyal Mueenuddin
Three months this man’s been off the farm – go back now, back to diesel,...
The House by the Gallows
Intizar Hussain
‘Along with religion, an unthinking nationalism had become the other god of Pakistan.’
Butt and Bhatti
Mohammad Hanif
‘Teddy is one of those people who are only articulate when they talk about cricket.’
High Noon
Green Cardamom
For the visual essay in Granta112: Pakistan, we collaborated with Green Cardamom – an organisation which focuses on international contemporary art viewed from an Indian Ocean perspective. With their help, we selected fourteen prominent figures from the contemporary art scene in Pakistan, and reproduced their work in the magazine.
Arithmetic on the Frontier
Declan Walsh
‘These days the tempest of Taliban violence ripping across the frontier has shaken Peshawar to its core.’
Life and Time
Hasina Gul
We grow up but do not comprehend life. We think life is just the passing...
A Beheading
Mohsin Hamid
‘The words are just dribbling out of my mouth. I can’t stop them. They’re like tears.’
Pop Idols
Kamila Shamsie
‘In our grandmother’s generation, when people became more religious, they turned devout. Now they turn fundamentalist.’
The Trials of Faisal Shahzad
Lorraine Adams & Ayesha Nasir
Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist Lorraine Adams and Pakistani reporter Ayesha Nasir examine the life of Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American who attempted to detonate a massive car bomb in New York’s Times Square.
Power Failure
Bina Shah
‘And it’s not just the heat – it’s the humidity, that succubus that pushes the heat index up by ten degrees, makes the roads shimmer with sultry mirages.’
The Dog of Ṭeṭvāl
Saadat Hasan Manto
‘For some time now, the two sides had been entrenched in their positions on the front.’
Pakistani truck art
Islam Gull
‘Truck artists transform village rickshaws, city buses and commercial trucks into a procession of moving colour.’
Gary Shteyngart | Interview
Gary Shteyngart & Emily Greenhouse
‘I can’t even afford to have thoughts on London, much less live or visit there.’
Ben Folds and Nick Hornby | Interview
Ben Folds, Nick Hornby & John Freeman
Ben Folds and Nick Hornby talk to John Freeman about literature, music and their new collaborative album.
Anthony Doerr | Interview
Anthony Doerr & Patrick Ryan
‘The natural world is full of records and erasures.’
Ants of Accra
Nii Ayikwei Parkes
‘Ants became an obsession with her – she darted with them as they changed paths, watched them find their way around obstacles placed in their way.’
The War Artist
Margaret Luongo
‘On the third day, the little rosebud teacups rattled in their saucers as the war artist poured the coffee.’
Summer with my Grandmother
A.L. Kennedy
‘And this was my grandmother, this man-destroying tyrant, this magnificent perfectionist with untireable arms and unfathomable ways of seeing.’
Going Back
Sigrid Rausing
‘We rowed towards it, further out than perhaps we should have, with the particular anarchic freedom of rowing a small rubber dinghy to sea after at least two glasses of wine.’
Toby Litt | Interview
Toby Litt & Ollie Brock
‘I wanted to write a minimalist romance, so I needed to have plenty of Love and Death. A dead human heart is both.’
