Reinventing the Reel: Inherent Vice
Film critic Ben Hynes on Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, a hazy adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’.
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This is Not Their Normal Life—Not at All
“A young man approaches me… He would like to show me his home, his wife and his children. He pushes the tarp to the side, and I look into their 32-square foot residence.” Peder Frederik Jensen reports from the Guiwa refugee camp. Translated from Danish by K.E. Semmel.
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Author of the Month: Sébastien Doubinsky
“There is actually nothing glamorous in being a writer or an artist, sorry.” Sébastien Doubinsky, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month, in conversation with Casey Harding.
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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’ Films of 2014
The best films of 2014, as selected by our editorial team.
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Three Pieces of Flash Fiction
“The western winds overwhelmed me, blew my garage open, sucked my tuba into the road, dragged it down the pebbly pavement. Sparks flew from its brass. The wind drove the sparks deep into the chaparral.” Story of the Week (December 19), by Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois.
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His Final Pages
“For the next ten years, tormented by such anxiety that I made every trip as short as I could, I was not to leave the house more than fifteen times.” Story of the Week (December 5), by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud. Translated from French by Edward Gauvin.
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The Marital Groupthink
At a time where “femininity” is weighed by the proclivity of procreation, the author ponders what place “the white picket fence” fantasy merits in Pakistan today.
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Poet of the Month: Kyla Pasha
“All poems are love poems, you know.” Continuing our Poet of the Month series, Kyla Pasha talks to Rosario Freire.
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Art as Protest, Art as Revolution
Can art change the world? Gimel Samera ponders art’s place in socio-political change using the growing civil unrest around the world as the canvas for her argument.
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