Agnostic Mind, Mystical Heart
Kent Monroe on understanding the universe without the explanations offered by organized religions.
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Mr. and Mrs. Agelast
A poem by emerging Pakistani poet Mavra Rana Tanweer from our Freedom Issue.
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Free Falling
In exquisite prose, Features Editor Maria Amir ruminates ‘freedom’, what it means now and whether an absolute definition is even merited.
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The Escape
In this extract from Kamila Shamsie’s fifth novel, a man in Afghanistan has to find a way into America without being caught by the authorities. This is the story of the route he takes, after paying a large sum of money.
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Letters to Strangers: Betweens
In this week’s column, Maria Amir contemplates the surprising freedom in being a divorcee in Pakistan…
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The Poor Dears
Hasan Manzar’s ‘The Poor Dears’, translated from the Urdu by Muhammed Umar Memon, explores what happens when an expatriate writer returns ‘home’.
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The Skull of the Chief Architect
From our ninth issue, Afzal Ahmed Syed’s prose poem, translated from the Urdu by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
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Karachi
“The rat-a-tat of gunfire / shatters the silence into pieces / of a stone requiem. / Come now, instead of / allegorising fear, / dare we spell it out?”
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Terminator: Attack of the Drone
Mohsin Hamid’s haunting and vivid story merges reality and science fiction, narrating the struggles of a few survivors hunted by machines which fly overhead in a nameless barren land.
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i wait for images to crystallize
From our ninth issue, a haunting poem by Spotlight Poet Ilona Yusuf
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