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Arts & Culture, The Critics, The Devil's in the RemoteOctober 2, 2013

Nothing Beside Remains

By Mahnoor Yawar

Articles Editor Mahnoor Yawar stands in for Shazia this week as she pays tribute to the dearly departed Breaking Bad.

The Devil's in the RemoteNovember 3, 2012

Pilots: What’s hot and what really isn’t

By Maryam Piracha, Shazia Ahmad

Awards Season As children of the 90s, it’s funny how uncomfortable we are with the idea of competition and people losing (that whole “everybody’s…

The Devil's in the RemoteJune 26, 2012

Of Aliens, Westerns and Aaron Sorkin

By Maryam Piracha

Before starting this post, I was torn at the title but at the end figured may as well leave the snark for the reviews….

The Devil's in the RemoteJune 23, 2012

It ain’t working for Men at Work

By Maryam Piracha, Shazia Ahmad

During the past few years, we’ve seen comedy evolve and redefine itself over and over again. Mocumentaries, single-camera, dramedies have all successfully reinvented the…

The Devil's in the RemoteJune 21, 2012

Summer Extravaganza: Comedies

By Shazia Ahmad

In which the couch potato discovers summer comedies
By Shazia Ahmad

The Devil's in the RemoteJune 21, 2012

Summer Extravaganza: Introducing the dramas

By Shazia Ahmad

In which the couch potato meets Wordpress…
by Shazia Ahmad

In the Magazine

A Word from the Editor

Don’t cry like a girl. Be a (wo)man.

Why holding up the women in our lives can help build a nation, in place of tearing it down.

Literature

This House is an African House

"This house is an African house./ This your body is an African womanâ€™s body..." By Kadija Sesay.

Literature

Shoots

"Sapling legs bend smoothly, power foot in place,/ her back, parallel to solid ground,/ makes her torso a table of support..." By Kadija Sesay.

Literature

A Dry Season Doctor in West Africa

"She presses her toes together. I will never marry, she says. Jamais dans cette vie! Where can I find a man like you?" By...

In the Issue

Property of a Sorceress

"She died under mango trees, under kola nut/ and avocado trees, her nose pressed to their roots,/ her hands buried in dead leaves, her...

Literature

What Took Us to War

"What took us to war has again begun,/ and what took us to war/ has opened its wide mouth/ again to confuse us." By...

Literature

Sometimes, I Close My Eyes

"sometimes, this is the way of the world,/ the simple, ordinary world, where things are/ sometimes too ordinary to matter. Sometimes,/ I close my...

Literature

Quarter to War

"The footfalls fading from the streets/ The trees departing from the avenues/ The sweat evaporating from the skin..." By Jumoke Verissimo.

Literature

Transgendered

"Lagos is a chronicle of liquid geographies/ Swimming on every tongue..." By Jumoke Verissimo.

Fiction

Sketches of my Mother

"The mother of my memories was elegant. She would not step out of the house without her trademark red lipstick and perfect hair. She...

Fiction

The Way of Meat

"Every dayâ€”any dayâ€”any one of us could be picked out for any reason, and we would be... Weâ€™d part like hair, pushing into the...

Fiction

Between Two Worlds

"Ursula spotted the three black students immediately. Everyone did. They could not be missed because they kept to themselves and apart from the rest...."...

Essays

Talking Gender

"In fact it is often through the uninformed use of such words that language becomes a tool in perpetuating sexism and violence against women...

Essays

Unmasking Female Circumcision

"Though the origins of the practice are unknown, many medical historians believe that FGM dates back to at least 2,000 years." Gimel Samera looks...

Essays

Not Just A Phase

"...in the workplace, a person can practically be forced out of their job by discrimination, taking numerous days off for fear of their physical...

Essays

The Birth of Bigotry

"The psychology of prejudice demands that we are each our own moral police". Maria Amir on the roots of bigotry and intolerance.

Fiction

The Score

"The person on the floor was unmistakeably dead. It looked like a woman; she couldnâ€™t be sure yet..." By Hawa Jande Golakai.