Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Nadeem Aslam’s passionate condemnation of Islamic extremism in The Golden Legend ought to answer the question of where are the Muslim critics of fundamentalism. In four earlier novels, Aslam (who is ...

The ravaged nation of Afghanistan in the wake of Sept. 11 is the scene of Pakistani-born British writer Nadeem Aslam's searing, multifaceted novel. You might think that there is a particular specter ...

In his new novel, "The Blind Man's Garden," Aslam again returns to those countries in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, to portray the terror that gripped a region that was blind to the forces ...

I just finished watching the perfect movie. Only it wasn’t a movie; it was a book. When you love a work of literature, you may abhor the thought of an adaptation. But Nadeem Aslam’s The Golden Legend ...

Two families are at the centre of the story, a middle-class Pakistani architect couple, Massud and Nargis, and their poor Christian neighbours, Lily (a man), Grace and their daughter Helen. Nargis was ...

The Golden Legend. By Nadeem Aslam. Knopf; 319 pages; $27.95. Faber & Faber; £16.99. THERE are two versions of how Pakistan got its name, both true. The original is the more prosaic. Choudhary Rahmat ...

Nadeem Aslam sent his first manuscript to Andre Deutsch after discovering the publisher’s address in a copy of A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul. He was called within a week. For the next 10 years, ...

Two young men — foster brothers in love with the same woman — leave their small Pakistani town for Afghanistan in late 2001. Jeo, a medical student, wants to help wounded civilians and Mikal is there ...