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Arts & Culture, The Critics, The Devil's in the RemoteOctober 2, 2013

Nothing Beside Remains

By Mahnoor Yawar

Articles Editor Mahnoor Yawar stands in for Shazia this week as she pays tribute to the dearly departed Breaking Bad.

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Commentary, EssaysSeptember 16, 2013

A Life Worth Living?

By Isaiah Ellis

Just over five years after the untimely demise of David Foster Wallace, guest writer Isaiah Ellis revisits the underlying narratives of the other in ‘Infinite Jest’.

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Commentary, EssaysSeptember 2, 2013

Love in the Time of Statistics

By Hammad Ali

Hammad Ali describes the unique frustration and delusion involved in being a Pakistani cricket fan.

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Commentary, EssaysAugust 26, 2013

Letters to Strangers: Shifting Allegiances

By Maria Amir

Letters to Strangers is a series where Features Editor Maria Amir writes to a faceless stranger of the very intimate and the very public…

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Articles, EssaysAugust 12, 2013

Dose of Humanity: A Young Syrian Doctor’s Remedy

By Audrey Ryback

Audrey Ryback writes of heroism in the face of possible imminent death in war-torn Syria…

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Commentary, EssaysJuly 29, 2013

On Ordinary Affairs With Freedom

By Sadia Khatri

Guest writer Sadia Khatri writes of the social lies we tell ourselves and how different reality often is.

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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 maryamp@themissingslate.com.

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