Varda Nisar, Author at The Missing Slate

Alone in Babel, Arts & CultureFebruary 8, 2014

Karachi Children’s Art Fest: A Dream Many Years in the Making

By Varda Nisar

Varda Nisar reports from the first ever Karachi Children’s Art Fest.

Fiction, LiteratureFebruary 7, 2014

Family

By Alan Swyer

“All humor, Leibowitz knew… was based upon a man in trouble. And when it came to trouble, marriage to Leibowitz’s sister was trouble carried to new heights.” Story of the Week (February 7), by Alan Swyer.

Alone in Babel, Arts & CultureFebruary 1, 2014

Nobel Laureate Week 2014

By John Robert Lee

John Robert Lee reports from St. Lucia’s Nobel Laureate Week.

Fiction, LiteratureJanuary 31, 2014

Spring is Coming

By Balla

“The blood-caked hairs on the dog’s tortured body were turning into symbols. With a painful sneer she realized what they meant.” Story of the Week (January 31), by Balla. Translated from Slovak by Julia and Peter Sherwood.

Roving Eye, SpotlightJanuary 30, 2014

Poet of the Month: Payam Feili

By Payam Feili, Udoka Okafor

“I have repeatedly pictured myself in the prison yard. Mentally, I have executed myself several times.” Our Poet of the Month, Payam Feili, interviewed by Udoka Okafor.

Literature, PoetryJanuary 29, 2014

Driftless Area (Or: At Perrot State Park at Forty-Six)

By Jeffrey D. Boldt

“…half my life is nothing up here,/ where ten thousand years/ disappear like campfire smoke.” Poem of the Week (January 28), by Jeffrey D. Boldt.

Literature, PoetryJanuary 27, 2014

Approaching Winter

By Pooja Garg Singh

“Perhaps we knew we were headed for/ Winter, perhaps we knew this was our last summer./ For why else would we/ Insist on taking the boat out to the sea.” Weekend poem, by Pooja Garg Singh.

Fiction, LiteratureJanuary 24, 2014

Second Wife

By Zvezdana Rashkovich

“Each time since they were married Adam had pushed her on the bed and pounced at her flesh like an animal. The sight of her bruised and bleeding body failed to deter him.” Story of the Week (January 24), by Zvezdana Rashkovich.

Roving Eye, SpotlightJanuary 18, 2014

Author of the Month: Minoli Salgado

By Isra Ansari, Minoli Salgado

“There are social expectations that reinforce the notion that women should not speak out at times when men might… In this sense, silence is gendered.” Isra Ansari interviews Minoli Salgado, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month.

Fiction, LiteratureJanuary 17, 2014

Antidote

By Noha Al-Badry

“Just as our gullible nation thought it had discovered freedom that bleak winter, Iâ€”tooâ€”naively thought I had discovered the Cure.” Story of the Week (January 17), by Noha Al-Badry.

Jacob Silkstone