EDITORIAL                                                                  

1 IN THE WAKE OF THE WAKE OF THE WAKE

Malachi McIntosh

ARTICLES J M COETZEE AND AFRICAN STUDIES David Attwell 32 MAXIMUM SPACE AROUND THE TYPEWRITER: YVONNE VERA AND THE CRAFT OF WRITING Jessica Hemmings 51 OF WOMEN’S BONDS: FEMALE FRIENDSHIP AND FEMINIST ETHICS OF CARE IN TABISH KHAIR’S JUST ANOTHER JIHADI JANE Indrani Karmakar LIFE WRITING 4 ‘WHAT HAVE I DONE?’ AND OTHER ILLUSIONS OF CONTROL Jessica Gaitán Johannesson 81 정 S J Kim INTERVIEWS 14 DOING THE WORK, WITH PAUL MENDEZ AND NIVEN GOVINDEN Octavia Bright 26 ACTS OF FAITH AND FRIGHTENING FICTIONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH IVAN VLADISLAVIĆ Sisonke Msimang 41 THE SYNTAX OF EVERYDAY INJUSTICE: A CONVERSATION WITH ARUNDHATI ROY Pavan Kumar Malreddy ART 10 READING THE PAST AND THE PRESENT, PAINTING THE SEA AND THE SKY Kabe Wilson 59 WHAT THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD: PANDEMIC VICISSITUDES AND CONTEMPORARY ART IN SINGAPORE Adele Tan FICTION 70 ZOHIRA Michelle Hamadache 76 BREAKFAST AT THE WINDSOR MIRAMAR Karina Lickorish Quinn POETRY 3 MY BROTHER QUIT DRINKING MAYBE FIVE TIMES Cecilia Knapp 50 TWO POEMS: ‘I WILL BEGIN’ and ‘SPICES, INK, AND PAPER’ Shakespeare Okuni 69 KNOCK ON WOOD Celia A Sorhaindo 75 RELAPSE DREAM ENDING WITH MY GRANDMOTHER’S HANDS Hala Alyan  REVIEWS 90 REVIEW ESSAY: ‘WRITING WATERSHEDS’: CLIMATE, PREJUDICE, AND PARANOIA Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology – Alice Oswald and Paul Keegan, eds. Red Pill – Hari Kunzru Should We Fall Behind – Sharon Duggal Dzifa Benson  93 Hashim and Family – Shahnaz Ahsan Suparna Banerjee 95 Women Dreaming – Salma, trans. by Meena Kandasamy Priyanka Hutschenreiter 96 The Orchid Folios – Mok Zining Yue Wang 97 Igifu – Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. by Jordan Stump Anna Giulia Novero 99 Tazmamart – Aziz BineBine, trans. by Lulu Norman Lives Lost: In Search of a New tomorrow – Saeed Yousef, foreword by Shahrzad Mojab, trans. by Ahad Bahadori, illustrated by Ava Raha David Rudd-Mitchell 101 Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century – Pallavi Rastogi Treasa De Loughry  102 Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move – Nanjala Nyabola Ranka Primorac 103 Antiemetic for Homesickness – Romalyn Ante Jennifer Wong 105 The Giant Dark – Sarvat Hasin Sana Goyal