Occupy Strand
If you have ever sold a book for or to the Strand you know there is nothing new in being taken advantage of by the Bass’s. When we parted company in 1975, over the then deplorable working conditions, poverty wages, the abusive attitude of management to staff and the unionization of the shop, it was […]
A century of bookselling in Karachi. Zubeida Mustafa.
NOT many readers would have visited Juna Market, the commercial hub of Karachi where hardware and spices compete with halwa puri to find buyers. In the ocean of commodities catering to hedonistic pleasures stands a lone modest-looking bookshop that seeks to nourish the mind. It has been doing that for 102 years, an anomaly among […]
Old Fashioned Romance: A Couturier’s Tale.
PERISCOPE MAGAZINE : STYLE/DESIGN by Ashley Davidson / Photos: Seth Tillett. Vanity, that most punishable of vices, so often exposes the one thing we most intend for it to conceal: our selves. The couturier serves as wizard, historian and heretic, harnessing vanity to create deities from the detestable, while disguising the average as extraordinary. Above […]
Jumel Terrace B&B
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The Private Library