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Meet the Editors.Feb 13, 2016

Meet the Editors: Fiction

The Missing Slate’s fiction editors reveal their process, works of fiction that haunt them, and their editing vice of choice in our Meet the Editors series.

By Constance Dunn
Alone in Babel.Jan 12, 2016

Age of Blight

“If you revel in the uncanny, this is a collection you will not want to miss.” Sauleha Kamal reviews ‘The Age of Blight’, by Kristine Ong Muslim.

By Jacob Silkstone
Arts & Culture.Dec 31, 2015

Editors and Contributors’ Books of 2015

The Missing Slate’s 2015 round up of the books that helped define our year.

By Jacob Silkstone
Roving Eye.Dec 13, 2015

Author of the Month: Arthur Davis

“I think you should write what you ‘have’ to write, not necessarily what you want to write.” Arthur Davis, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for October, talks to Sauleha Kamal.

By Fiction Team
Arts & Culture.Dec 31, 2014

Editors’ Books of 2014

Our editors pick the best reads of 2014 that contextualized the year for them.

By Jacob Silkstone
Alone in Babel.Nov 10, 2014

Diary: Arno Camenisch in Brooklyn, New York

Sauleha Kamal on an evening with Swiss writer Arno Camenisch at Book Court in Brooklyn.

By Jacob Silkstone
Alone in Babel.Jun 30, 2014

Write What You Know?

Sauleha Kamal on the difficulties of ‘writing what you know’.

By Jacob Silkstone
Roving Eye.May 8, 2014

Author of the Month: Madeleine Lee

“We feel obligated to hide ourselves, and in general, we’re just plain cruel to each other.” Madeleine Lee, our Author of the Month, talks to Sauleha Kamal.

By Jacob Silkstone
Alone in Babel.Apr 3, 2014

The Muslim Protagonist

Sauleha Kamal reports on the second annual Muslim Protagonist Writer’s Symposium at Columbia University.

By Jacob Silkstone
Roving Eye.Sep 5, 2013

Author of the Month: Anis Shivani

Mr. Shivani talks to Sauleha Kamal about ‘world literature’, the malign influence of the marketplace, and authoritarianism in various guises…

By Jacob Silkstone