'About Time' offers unexpected human emotion mixed with scores of intelligent references extracted from Qayoom's dual-sided heaven of death and life, perspectives from inside Christian and Muslim doctrines looking outwards, even right and left brains. Offering his reader a sense of balance in strife, in love and most everyone's preoccupation with expressing himself, Qayoom replaces our eyes with his. If there is not one heaven, Qayoom's reader has no choice but to enter the other, continuing his days in hope despite how bleak a moment may seem.

This volume contains all of Rehan Qayoom's prose works from 1997 through 2008, including many little-known essays that exemplify his range, wit, depth, and wisdom. The book incorporates the complete text of his first separately published prose book 'Seeking Betjeman Country' including 28 separate essays, reviews, introductions, and lectures. 2 reviews that were commissioned, but which the magazines never printed, appear here for the first time. The variety of style and subject in this book is almost inexhaustible. He writes about the imaginary mirrors that everyone carries through life; Keats, Byron, English and Urdu poetry; and politics and religion.The introduction places the essays in biographical and historical context, and the extensive textual notes and bibliography explain obscure contemporary references.

This volume contains all of Rehan Qayoom's prose works from 1997 through 2008, including many little-known essays that exemplify his range, wit, depth, and wisdom. The book incorporates the complete text of his first separately published prose book 'Seeking Betjeman Country' including 28 separate essays, reviews, introductions, and lectures. 2 reviews that were commissioned, but which the magazines never printed, appear here for the first time. The variety of style and subject in this book is almost inexhaustible. He writes about the imaginary mirrors that everyone carries through life; Keats, Byron, English and Urdu poetry; and politics and religion.The introduction places the essays in biographical and historical context, and the extensive textual notes and bibliography explain obscure contemporary references.