In The New Century: An Anthology of Pakistani English Literature provides an important addition to Shamsie’s literary history Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of a Pakistani Literature in English (2004) as it includes texts linked to many of works discussed in Hybrid Tapestries, but focuses on writings published between 1997 and 2017. As the century turned, Pakistani English continued to grow and develop, as the new star in Anglophone literature. This book is also an important follow-up to Shamsie’s first anthology, A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English which was published in 1997 to mark Pakistan’s Golden Jubilee, covered the first fifty years of Pakistan.