A Thousand Miles
“that Aymara man there/ who stowed his bundle in our hold/ & that small boy/ with a shoe box,/ the little we can carry…” Weekend Poem, by Lorraine Caputo.
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Safe Scares: How 9/11 Caused the American Horror Remake Trend (Part Three)
In the final part of a series, film critic Michael Dodd examines how modern horror has addressed the post-9/11 psyche.
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Boy in an Old Photograph
“It is his last photo,/ but the camera keeps clicking/ every year without him/ in the dark lens.” Poem of the Week (September 9), by Mir Mahfuz Ali.
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Karachi, You’re Killing Me!
“As far as debut novels go, this one is pretty fantastic… Plus, it has a cat.” Ghausia Rashid Salam reviews Saba Imtiaz’s first novel.
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Dubai Unplugged
In a cosmopolitan metropolis like Dubai, a thriving business and cultural hub, live music is a concept often restricted to massive, multinational events. International artists…
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Celebrating Literature: A Conversation with Waqas Khwaja
In an exclusive conversation with Sana Hussain, poet Waqas Khwaja shares his ambivalence about the abundance of literature festivals in Pakistan, and comments on the impossibility of translations, his experience guest editing the Atlanta Review’s issue on Pakistani poetry and his passion for literature and poetry.
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Loopy Tunes: Where Is That Music Coming From?
The Missing Slate’s Mavra Bari talks to Toronto-based musician Kira May about what sets looping apart in the music scene and makes it such a fixture in Toronto’s urban landscape.
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Literary or Not – The Reality of Escapist Fiction
Denied respect for much of literary history, what is the true value of escapist fiction? Features Editor Sana Hussain expounds.
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Shattered Screens
Senior Film Critic Tom Nixon ponders on the evolving world of cinema and where a film ends and “reality” begins.
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Summer 2014 — “Fantasy & Escapeâ€
What’s inside the fantasy and escape issue of the magazine…
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