The Muslim Protagonist
Sauleha Kamal reports on the second annual Muslim Protagonist Writer’s Symposium at Columbia University.
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‘If Thy Right Hand Offend Thee’
“Zeke threw the door open and stormed into the room brandishing a sawed-off shotgun… ‘You’re the one I’ve come for,’ he snarled. ‘The abortion doctor.’ ” Story of the Week (March 28th), by Mike Sheedy.
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Poet of the Month: Rowland Bagnall
“A friend of mine told me recently that Jonathan Franzen used to blindfold himself daily, touch-type for 6 hours and then get drunk on vodka with his wife. I don’t do this.” Rowland Bagnall, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month for February, talks to Audrey Ryback.
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Author of the Month: Daniela Kapitáňová
“We are not the ones who ultimately decide whether an author will shape the cultural awareness of a nation. Which is fortunate.” In our latest Author of the Month interview, Daniela Kapitáňová talks to Jacob Silkstone.
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A 1977 Affair
“As I walk to the house, she glances up at me like a rat being caught in adultery.” Story of the Week (March 21), by Jordan Blum.
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Tracing the Contours of Memory
Samantak Bhadra finds plenty to admire in an exciting debut collection from Shikha Malaviya.
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Apricot
“I was standing in Priscilla’s garden and felt my body getting bigger… My legs and arms disappeared and I was rolling towards the fringed tulips.” Story of the Week (March 14), by UrÅ¡uľa Kovalyk. Translated from Slovak by Julia Sherwood.
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Just Before Birth
“A canvas/ empty of colour/ a body/ kissed by death.”
Poem of the Week (March 11), by Sukrita Paul Kumar.
Asphalt Story #84
“Strangers watched on,/ making bets in our favour,/ and drinking the last of the rain.”
Weekend poem, by Kat Soini.
Wild, Animal Love
“I was a mixed up, fucked up breed from a small town… I had been raised in a foster home with a bunch of freaks, weirdos and perverts.” Story of the Week (March 7), by Erika T. Wurth.
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