Private Theatre: Vamps & Only Lovers Left Alive
Senior film critic Tom Nixon writes on two destined-to-be-dismissed vampire comedies with melancholy undertones.
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the trials and tribulations of a well-endowed woman
“my breasts offend my father,/ more so than my opinions…” Poem of the Week (April 1st), by Hira A.
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No Paine, No Gain
Blake Matich pays tribute to the contributions of Thomas Paine, a forgotten champion of minority rights in US history.
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Autobiography of a Writer’s Notebook
Do receptacles of beauty share in the joy it creates? Returning contributor Madhurima Duttagupta pens the diary of a poet’s diary.
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Dictating The Meaning
Features Editor Sana Hussain wonders whose prerogative it is to dictate the meaning of a work of literature — the author’s or the reader’s.
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“Writing Fiction” – Dubai
Following on from the success of our inaugural fiction creative writing workshops in Islamabad, helmed by The Missing Slate Editor-in-Chief, we’re expanding to Dubai. Read…
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Creating Spaces
In which the author argues for the importance of open and public forums for women, untainted by the opinions and interpretations of the less fairer sex.
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A Word from the Editor
Dear Readers, Some might argue that for an almost all-woman team of a magazine run by a woman, sexual and emotional power plays, such…
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Reading Lebanon, Reading the World
An introduction to the Lebanese literary feature By Marcia Lynx Qualey and Yasmina Jraissati Literary traditions from the area we now call Lebanon have…
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Winter 2014 — “Sexual & Emotional Power Plays”
A special feature on Lebanese writers and poets and essays on the issue’s theme of sexual and emotional power plays rounds off this issue.
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