Finding an Audience
On the laws that kept Saadat Hasan Manto’s stories and the work of his successors out of readers’ reach.
Monday, January 25, 2021
Northern view of the cantonment, Karachi, from the sea shore at Clifton, by Henry Francis Ainslie, 1851. British Library.
Lapham’s Quarterly is running a series on the history of best sellers, exploring the circumstances that might inspire thousands to gravitate toward the same book and revisiting well-loved works from the past that, due to a variety of circumstances, vanished from the conversation after they peaked on the charts. We are also publishing a digital edition of one of these forgotten best sellers, Mary Augusta Ward’s 1903 novel Lady Rose’s Daughter