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.
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.
Features Editor Sana Hussain’s essay explores sexual power plays in Pakistani Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai’s short stories.
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.
Features Editor Sana Hussain argues in favor of defining art within its particular sociopolitical context.
The author of “The Cloud Messenger” talks about “post-9/11” writing, what it means for emerging Pakistani writers and why he doesn’t believe he qualifies as one.
Features Editor Sana Hussain writes of Pakistan’s arguably most controversial writer in Urdu and how the troubled writer coped with 1947’s partition from India.
From our eighth issue, Sana Hussain writes about the frayed but still consistent relationship between creation and censorship.
In the seventh issue’s cover feature, Sana Hussain writes about the constant quest for belonging in literature from the Lost Generation up to and including the twenty first century.
In an exclusive, The Missing Slate got the chance to sit with Pakistani poet Ilona Yusuf at the Islamabad Literature Festival on April 30. From politics, reading culture and advice for aspiring literati, we’d like to believe we have it all. Read on.