The Everyday and the Absurd
“Both Verkaaik and Ring look at ethnic violence from around the political lens, rather than directly through it.” Nabeeha Chaudhary looks at two academic texts on the subtleties of ethnic conflict in Pakistan.
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Kingship versus Kinship: Part II
“Nizam is just as homeless and out of place in the American’s valley as Antigone is in Thebes when it is reduced to Creon’s state of exception.” Part two of Peter Krause’s essay analysing Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ and Joydeep Roy-Bhattachary’s ‘The Watch’.
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Kingship versus Kinship: Part I
“It is wholly appropriate that a contemporary, post-9/11 retelling of Sophocles’ story be set in the context of a recent war…” Peter Krause talks about the relevance of the Antigone story in Roy-Bhattacharya’s ‘The Watch’.
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Editors and Contributors’ Books of 2015
The Missing Slate’s 2015 round up of the books that helped define our year.
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Editors’ Books of 2014
Our editors pick the best reads of 2014 that contextualized the year for them.
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Editors’ Books of the Year
This year, The Missing Slate’s editors pick out one book that contextualized 2013 for them. Read on to find out what their picks are and whether you agree.
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Neither here nor there
by Jacob Silkstone
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What’s in a Name?
by Sana Hussain
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