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