“I was scared and apprehensive, as anyone who dabbles in the sacred ought to be, when … I, for the first time in 15 years, ingested a small clear capsule containing 250 micrograms of the substance known as LSD.” Michael C. Blumenthal on ‘the psychedelic experience in mid-age’.
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“Whilst we largely owe our brain anatomy to a massive succession of remote and infinitesimal biochemical events (through mutation and natural selection), the evolutionary “panacea†alone cannot account for all by-products of brain function”, writes Karl Malone Magalhães in this week’s essay.
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At a time where everyone seems to be on social media decrying the latest controversy or terrorist attack, Emily Eagen explores whether online activism can really make a difference.
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The best films of 2014, as selected by our editorial team.
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“I’m exhausted now, or rather, I think that I had already become tired a long time ago…” Story of the Week (November 21), by Naiyer Masud. Translated from Urdu by Muhammad Umar Memon.
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At a time where “femininity” is weighed by the proclivity of procreation, the author ponders what place “the white picket fence” fantasy merits in Pakistan today.
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Can art change the world? Gimel Samera ponders art’s place in socio-political change using the growing civil unrest around the world as the canvas for her argument.
Read More“One rarely hears rumors about whores and bawds, one hears them about respectable women, spread with the intention of causing grief… all kinds of rumors about Laji Bai were circulating on Japani Road.” Story of the Week (October 24), by Asad Muhammad Khan. Translated from Urdu by Aquila Ismail and Muhammad Umar Memon.
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“Hers is a strength most of us lack.” Ghausia Rashid Salam asks why Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai seems to be disliked by so many groups in Pakistan.
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As a special web anthology, The Missing Slate presents the work of its first fiction writing workshop graduates.
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