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Roving Eye, SpotlightSeptember 15, 2016

Spotlight Site: Alexander Pruss

By Robert Cottrell

“Alexander Pruss is a new renaissance man. [He] will fix your metaphysics and your iPhone in the same evening.” Robert Cottrell’s series on the best of the web continues with a visit to Alexander Pruss’s blog.

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Literature, PoetrySeptember 11, 2016

As heavy as the bottom of the sea

By Adham Smart

“They woke to find an angel on the beach/ as heavy as the bottom of the sea,/ as dark as boulders locked in frozen lakes…”
Weekend poem, by Adham Smart.

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Roving Eye, SpotlightSeptember 8, 2016

Spotlight Site: Stained Glass Attitudes

By Robert Cottrell

“The quality is perfectly maintained at a level somewhere around the celestial. Each note is a work of art crafted to outlast the centuries.”
Things you never knew about the internet: James Cameron is unsurpassed as a blogger on stained glass.

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Literature, PoetrySeptember 8, 2016

Letter (after Dionne Brand)

By John Robert Lee

“exhausting, these post-modern certainties/ no truth, no meaning, no author/ no beauty I suppose in the old songs of remembering…”
Poem of the Week (September 7), by John Robert Lee.

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Literature, PoetrySeptember 4, 2016

Hideout

By Saleem Peeradina

“There is no space small enough/ To contain her in this glass house.”
Weekend poem, by Saleem Peeradina.

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Roving Eye, SpotlightSeptember 1, 2016

Spotlight Site: Marginal Revolution

By Robert Cottrell

“Marginal Revolution may well be the finest blog ever; if we wanted to put a blog in the Smithsonian to show future generations what happened when smart people in our time spoke their minds, then Marginal Revolution would be my choice.”
Robert Cottrell continues his journey around the best of the web in the third instalment of our Spotlight Site series.

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Roving Eye, SpotlightAugust 25, 2016

Spotlight Site: Slate Star Codex

By Robert Cottrell

“Alexander looks with curiosity on his own fallibilities, and with sympathy on those of others — his disposition to theory is tempered by frequent contact with reality.” Robert Cottrell continues his series on the best of the web with a look at Slate Star Codex.

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Literature, PoetryAugust 21, 2016

The Secret Library

By Tabitha Hayward

“Just like the body needs food, the soul needs books.” Weekend poem, by Tabitha Hayward.

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Roving Eye, SpotlightAugust 18, 2016

Spotlight Site: The Bryn Mawr Classical Review

By Robert Cottrell

“The Bryn Mawr Classical Review reminds me that the race to the bottom in which 99.999% of online publications are engaged is a choice, not an obligation…” Robert Cottrell introduces a new series, spotlighting the very best of the web.

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Literature, PoetryAugust 17, 2016

Keeping a date/Acudiendo a la cita

By Felipe Benítez Reyes

“The fugitive’s road is always long./ Every place is always too/ close to be the end.” Poem of the Week (August 17), by Felipe Benítez Reyes. Translated from Spanish by Anna Rosenwong.

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One last love letter...

April 24, 2021

It has taken us some time and patience to come to this decision. TMS would not have seen the success that it did without our readers and the tireless team that ran the magazine for the better part of eight years.

But… all good things must come to an end, especially when we look at the ever-expanding art and literary landscape in Pakistan, the country of the magazine’s birth.

We are amazed and proud of what the next generation of creators are working with, the themes they are featuring, and their inclusivity in the diversity of voices they are publishing. When TMS began, this was the world we envisioned…

Though the magazine has closed and our submissions shuttered, this website will remain open for the foreseeable future as an archive of the great work we published and the astounding collection of diverse voices we were privileged to feature.

If, however, someone is interested in picking up the baton, please email Maryam Piracha, the editor, at [email protected].

Farewell, fam! It’s been quite a ride.