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Commentary, EssaysAugust 25, 2014

Our Lives, Seasoned with Poetry & Fairy Tales

By Luisa Kelle, Madhurima Duttagupta

How is it that we cling to concepts like hope and love, yet ignore their purveyors? Returning contributor Madhurima Duttagupta muses about the essence of human nature.

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Commentary, EssaysAugust 14, 2014

The Aggregate of Happiness

By Khan & Kowarski, Trisha Federis

New contributor Trisha Federis writes out a life in fragments, made up of people and places, memories and hope.

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Arts & Culture, Special Features, SpotlightJuly 24, 2014

Dubai Unplugged

By Gimel Samera, Kevin Sebastian

In a cosmopolitan metropolis like Dubai, a thriving business and cultural hub, live music is a concept often restricted to massive, multinational events. International artists…

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Commentary, EssaysJuly 14, 2014

The Mixed Blessing of Audiobooks

By Aaron Grierson, Fraz Mateen

Senior Articles Editor Aaron Grierson weighs in on the strange evolution of how we consume information and literature.

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Arts & Culture, Special FeaturesJuly 7, 2014

Celebrating Literature: A Conversation with Waqas Khwaja

By Sana Hussain, Waqas Khwaja

In an exclusive conversation with Sana Hussain, poet Waqas Khwaja shares his ambivalence about the abundance of literature festivals in Pakistan, and comments on the impossibility of translations, his experience guest editing the Atlanta Review’s issue on Pakistani poetry and his passion for literature and poetry.

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Roving Eye, SpotlightJuly 3, 2014

Loopy Tunes: Where Is That Music Coming From?

By Mavra Bari

The Missing Slate’s Mavra Bari talks to Toronto-based musician Kira May about what sets looping apart in the music scene and makes it such a fixture in Toronto’s urban landscape.

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Arts & Culture, FilmJune 25, 2014

Reinventing the Reel: Neighbors

By Jay Sizemore

Film critic Jay Sizemore on the latest Seth Rogen comedy ‘Neighbors’.

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Commentary, EssaysJune 9, 2014

Displaced Loyalty

By Abid Hassan, Hammad Ali

How do you choose what team to support when your national team never qualifies? Hammad Ali talks about the experience of being a Pakistani fan ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

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Globetrotter, Roving EyeJune 4, 2014

Red Island

By Jeffrey Prosser, Sandra Walmsley

Sarah Walmsley takes a trip down to Madagascar to see the lemurs, a curious species both endangered by humans and dependent on them for existence.

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Writing WorkshopsMay 28, 2014

TMS Writing Fiction Workshops

By Mahnoor Yawar

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Greetings from the future!

 

With COVID-19 taking the world by storm and news channels everywhere hitting us with waves of negativity, we at The Missing Slate recognize the importance of creativity and the arts, especially their impact on mental health. As the world sits indoors and in some areas, cautiously starts to re-enter life, they do so knowing that things might never go completely back to “normal”. That “normal” is the watchword.

 

Over the coming weeks, long-time readers will notice things starting to change as the magazine pivots focus and direction. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. For now, we can say only that we’re coming back. That we’ve been hibernating for long enough and that the world needs some positivity and reasons to hope amidst all the doom and gloom.

 

Stay tuned!