“Both Verkaaik and Ring look at ethnic violence from around the political lens, rather than directly through it.” Nabeeha Chaudhary looks at two academic texts on the subtleties of ethnic conflict in Pakistan.
“Nizam is just as homeless and out of place in the American’s valley as Antigone is in Thebes when it is reduced to Creon’s state of exception.” Part two of Peter Krause’s essay analysing Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ and Joydeep Roy-Bhattachary’s ‘The Watch’.
“It is wholly appropriate that a contemporary, post-9/11 retelling of Sophocles’ story be set in the context of a recent war…” Peter Krause talks about the relevance of the Antigone story in Roy-Bhattacharya’s ‘The Watch’.
The Missing Slate’s 2015 round up of the books that helped define our year.
Our editors pick the best reads of 2014 that contextualized the year for them.
This year, The Missing Slate’s editors pick out one book that contextualized 2013 for them. Read on to find out what their picks are and whether you agree.