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Commentary.Aug 25, 2014

Our Lives, Seasoned with Poetry & Fairy Tales

How is it that we cling to concepts like hope and love, yet ignore their purveyors? Returning contributor Madhurima Duttagupta muses about the essence of human nature.

By Mahnoor Yawar
Commentary.Aug 14, 2014

The Aggregate of Happiness

New contributor Trisha Federis writes out a life in fragments, made up of people and places, memories and hope.

By Mahnoor Yawar
Arts & Culture.Jul 24, 2014

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 prefer Dubai as a pit stop on their global tours, headlining large commercial concerts on which Asian fans spend hundreds of dirhams to hear music already being played on radio stations around the clock. In an environment … Continued

By Mahnoor Yawar
Commentary.Jul 14, 2014

The Mixed Blessing of Audiobooks

Senior Articles Editor Aaron Grierson weighs in on the strange evolution of how we consume information and literature.

By Mahnoor Yawar
Arts & Culture.Jul 7, 2014

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.

By Mahnoor Yawar
Roving Eye.Jul 3, 2014

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.

By Mahnoor Yawar
Arts & Culture.Jun 25, 2014

Reinventing the Reel: Neighbors

Film critic Jay Sizemore on the latest Seth Rogen comedy ‘Neighbors’.

By Mahnoor Yawar
Commentary.Jun 9, 2014

Displaced Loyalty

How do you choose what team to support when your national team never qualifies? Hammad Ali talks about the experience of being a Pakistani fan ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

By Mahnoor Yawar
Globetrotter.Jun 4, 2014

Red Island

Sarah Walmsley takes a trip down to Madagascar to see the lemurs, a curious species both endangered by humans and dependent on them for existence.

By Mahnoor Yawar