The Folded Earth
Every time prices rose, she said, “Does Gormint care if we live or die?†Government was a person who lived far away and grew fat while her cheeks hollowed with too much work and too little food.
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Spotlight Artist: Numair Abbasi
The Missing Slate’s Creative Director sat with Indus Valley student and emerging artist Numair Abbasi to talk about the rapidly political world of Pakistani art, art lobbies, and the recurrent themes in his work.
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Fall 2013 — The “Politics” Issue
What’s featured in the “Politics” issue including web (and digital) exclusives.
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Spotlight Potter: Sheherzade Alam
Sheherezade Alam is a potter and lecturer of Ceramics and History of Art at the National College of Arts in Lahore, and has her…
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A Word from the Editor-in-Chief
On politics, art, and why The Missing Slate breaks its promise to never “do” politics…
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Art’s Place in the Digital Age
Senior Articles Editor Aaron Grierson addresses the increasingly shifting sands of what constitutes art in the digital age.
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USS: The Uncertain State of Superheroism
“While moral ambiguity is not an option for superheroes, how far can a writer take political and social messages of their time without resorting to the pulpit?” asks Deputy Articles Editor Mahnoor Yawar.
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Another Country
She briefly feared the outer door wouldn’t let her leave, but she found the button to press and slipped into the street. It was raining, and cold. She walked slowly home, reassured by the quotidian misery of the Monoprix…
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The Rise of Pakistan’s First Comic Book Giants
From a Facebook page to bringing out Pakistan’s first true comic book, Ghausia Rashid Salam traces the progress of the Kachee Goliyan Comics’ boys.
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Immanuel Kant in Shillong
This is the kind of town where you could be sitting in a restaurant, concentrating on your noodle soup, and suddenly notice across the room a man with the face of Harrison Ford, calmly eating lunch with his ordinary wife…
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