EDITORIAL

• Shirley Chew

ON V.S. NAIPAUL

• Paula Burnett, Intertextualities: Half a Life Maugham and Rhys
• Michael Gorra & James Wood, Half a Life and Earlier: A Conversation
• Feroza Jussawalla, V.S. Naipaul, September 11, and the Nobel
• John McLeod, Naipaul’s London: Mr Stone and the Knights Companion
• Meenakshi Mukherjee, The Unhoused Mr Naipaul
• Stuart Murray, Naipaul Amongst the Critics
• Alastair Niven, ‘The Luck of the Prize’: V.S. Naipaul, First Winner of the

  David Cohen British Literature Prize

• Caryl Phillips, Foreword to ‘The Mystic Masseur’ the Screenplay
• Landeg White, On V.S. Naipaul and Letters Between a Father and Son

FICTION

• Erendiz Atasü, The Madness in her Feet

  Translated by Erendiz Atasü & Elizabeth Maslen

• Elleke Boehmer, Like in a Tear-Gas Attack

POETRY

• Helon Habila, The Road, Air
• Dennis Haskell, I am Well, Who are you?, The Last Emperor
• Leong Liew Geok, Remembering the Poet, Passions, Hands, Littoral
• Andrew McNeillie, Allt, Belonging
• Mamta G. Sagar, Claustrophobic, The River Flows On

  Do Not Walk Into Me, Like This

  Translated from Kannada by Dr Chitra Panikkar with the poet

• Landeg White, The Platform, With What I’m Burning,

  Literary Remains, A Far Cry

ARTICLES

• Cassandra Pybus, Ned Kelly’s African Antecedents
• Kyra Vladykov-Fisher, Three Women Artists: Three Perspectives on Making Art

REVIEWS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS