Credentials of a Critic
New contributor Madhurima Duttagupta muses on the significance and relevance of the modern literary critic.
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In The “Things Just Disappear†Category
G. David Schwartz writes a letter to lost friends, dearly departed or otherwise.
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Prepping for Doomsday: the Cosmically–Unconscious
Returning contributor Kent Monroe muses about mankind’s place in evolutionary history – both the marvel we’ve achieved and the danger we pose.
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Letters to Strangers: Così Fan Tutte
In this week’s edition of Letters to Strangers, Maria Amir muses about the prisons we build for ourselves, listening to opera, and learning to befriend other women.
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For Art’s Sake
Features Editor Sana Hussain argues in favor of defining art within its particular sociopolitical context.
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Letters to Strangers: Sacred Spaces
In this month’s column, The Missing Slate’s Maria Amir writes of sacred spaces – the car, a new role, and the awakening that they perpetuate.
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A Life Worth Living?
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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Love in the Time of Statistics
Hammad Ali describes the unique frustration and delusion involved in being a Pakistani cricket fan.
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Letters to Strangers: Shifting Allegiances
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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On Ordinary Affairs With Freedom
Guest writer Sadia Khatri writes of the social lies we tell ourselves and how different reality often is.
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