“João was of the rarified First World, but no stranger to its analog. To see it up close was invigorating—the knowledge that one would be soon returning to a more pleasant place made it so.” Story of the Week (June 6), by Jon Shifrin.
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Maliha Iftekhar reviews Vineetha Mokkil’s ‘A Happy Place and Other Stories’.
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“…maybe this is the problem with empires: how they have forced us to live in a world lacking in mermaids…” Weekend poem, by Kei Miller.
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Isra Ansari remembers the inspirational Maya Angelou.
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“In fact, I think the only convincing, memorable female protagonist in Pakistani prose has been created by a man… Mohammed Hanif” Hira A, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, talks to Ghausia Rashid Salam.
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“I wiped the dried blood off the dog tag I’d unclipped from his neck, placed it in the hat and slid it carefully into the duffel bag…” Story of the Week (May 30), by Sarka Kocicka.
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“The rotting yellow farmhouse/ always the same…” Poem of the Week (May 27), by Daniel von der Embse.
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“His jealousy was aroused when an acquaintance hinted that she might be carrying on with a young man from Ricchwi, a village someway off. Thaan bullied and beat her when she returned.” Story of the Week (May 23), by Raj Sharma.
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“Listen to the murmur of the fish-woman in the wet market/ who speaks a dialect in which the word for thank you is a bow,/ sincere and deep.” Poem of the Week (May 20), by Jay Bernard.
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“I think of my own mother/ folded tight into/ her warm dark bed/ of Mississippi Delta clay.” Weekend poem (May 18), by Susan Castillo Street.
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