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Fatima Bhutto

Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and grew up in Syria and Pakistan. Her most recent writing includes the novel The Runaways and a non-fiction book about the changing world of global pop culture, New Kings of the World.

Photograph © Pankaj Mishra

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 158 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 158 padlock

The Hour of the Wolf

Fatima Bhutto

‘Though I have had dogs all my life, Coco is my first real companion.’

Fatima Bhutto on grief.

Fiction | Issue 158
Fiction | Issue 158

The Disappearing

Fatima Bhutto

‘I have gone to the forest to lie among the moss and sleep under a canopy of trees. I have gone to the forest to root among the soil and listen to the birds.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 158
Essays & Memoir | Issue 158

Fatima Bhutto on the Refugee Crisis

Fatima Bhutto

‘In a connected world, how can anyone close their doors?’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 129
Essays & Memoir | Issue 129

Fatima Bhutto | My Other Thing

Fatima Bhutto

‘If you happen to be friends with one of the world’s most fearsome food critics, don’t cook for him.’

Fiction | Issue 129 padlock
Fiction | Issue 129 padlock

Blasphemy

Fatima Bhutto

The tourists are gone. They’ve fled to Islamabad, along with the landlords and the hoteliers and the battalions of police that used to defend them, and certainty has left with them.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 112 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 112 padlock

Mangho Pir

Fatima Bhutto

‘Although they lived in the shadows, they refused to go unnoticed.’

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