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The State of the Industry

Editorial

Editorial
The Sound of Freedom
Sana Goyal
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Lead Feature

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Custard Pies
Jen Calleja
Pages: 3-7
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Poetry

Poetry
Diversity–Inclusion–Equity
Meena Kandasamy
Page: 8
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Interview

Interview
Creativity and Capitalism: Alexander Chee and Isabel Waidner in Conversation
Alexander Chee & Isabel Waidner
Pages: 9-16
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Fiction New Writing Prize Winner 2023

Fictional Work
That Which We Call a Rose
Sharika Nair
Pages: 18-20
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Life Writing New Writing Prize Winner 2023

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Absent Presence
Nasia Sarwar-Skuse
Pages: 21-24
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Poetry New Writing Prize Winner 2023

Poetry
Mother, Earth — A Colloquy
Swati Rana
Pages: 25-28
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Poetry

Poetry
Vows; Salt
Amara Amaryah
Pages: 29-31
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Art

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Letter from Kingston
Annie Paul
Pages: 32-42
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Interview

Interview
The Critic at Work and Play: In Conversation with Margo Jefferson
Franklin Nelson
Pages: 43-48
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Life Writing

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Dambore Dambore: Bidding Goodbye to Mauritian Bhojpuri
Vedita Cowaloosur
Pages: 49-56
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Uprooted in the ‘Postcolonial’ Moment: Attia Hosain’s No New Lands, No New Seas
Mobeen Hussain
Pages: 57-66
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Poetry

Poetry
Memory Map
after Jennifer Wong’s ‘Mountain City’
Andrés N Ordorica
Pages: 67-70
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Poetry
A Glossary for Moving Overseas
Yilin Wang
Pages: 71-75
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Interview

Interview
High Stakes: Elaine Castillo on Being Better Readers
Katie Goh
Pages: 76-80
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Essay Prize Winner 2023

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Spectral Trans Figures: The Ambiguous and Atemporal Hijra Body in Narcopolis
Karthik Shankar
Pages: 81-91
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Fiction

Fictional Work
Sis
Caitlin Stobie
Pages: 92-100
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Article

Article
Writing in/against the Academy: Contemporary Biomythographies by women of colour
Georgia Lin
Pages: 101-111
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Life Writing

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Life in the UK
S J Kim
Pages: 112-115
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Review Essay

Book Review
On the Luxury of Writing with Honesty
A Horse at Night: On Writing Amina Cain Daunt Books, London 2023, pb, 144pp, £9.99 ISBN 9781914198373 | https://dauntbookspublishing.co.uk; Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art Lauren Elkin Chatto & Windus, London 2023, hb, 368pp, £25 ISBN 9781784742935 | www.penguin.co.uk; Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma Claire Dederer Sceptre Books, London 2023, hb, 288pp, £20 ISBN 9781399715034 | www.hachette.co.uk
Zeba Talkhani
Pages: 116-119
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala & English Poetry from Sri Lanka & Its Diasporas
Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, and Shash Trevett, eds Bloodaxe Books, Hexham 2023, pb, 424pp, £14.99 ISBN 9781780376738 | www.bloodaxebooks.com
Adrija Ghosh
Pages: 120-121
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation; Letters to a Writer of Color
River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation Nuzhat Abbas, ed Trace Press, Toronto 2023, pb, 228pp, $18.00 ISBN 9781775256755 | https://tracepress.org/en-us; Letters to a Writer of Color Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro, eds Penguin Random House, New York 2023, pb, 272pp, $17.00 ISBN 9780593449417 | www.penguinrandomhouse.com
Chandrica Barua
Pages: 122-123
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Disorientation; The Unfortunates
Disorientation Elaine Hsieh Chou Penguin Books, New York 2023, pb, 401pp, $18 ISBN 9780593298374 | www.penguin.com; The Unfortunates J K Chukwu HarperCollins, New York 2023, hb, 301pp, $30 ISBN 9780358650263 | www.harpercollins.com
Vika Mujumdar
Pages: 124-125
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Kibogo; No Edges
Kibogo Scholastique Mukasonga. Translated by Mark Polizzotti Archipelago Books, New York 2023, pb, 162pp, $18 ISBN 9781953861368 | https://archipelagobooks.org; No Edges Multiple authors and translators Tilted Axis, London 2023, pb, 103pp, £12.00 ISBN 9781911284901 | www.tiltedaxispress.com
Mayada Ibrahim
Pages: 126-127
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture; Reading Bestsellers: Recommendation Culture and the Multimodal Reader
White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture Alexandra Dane Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2023, pb, 90pp, £12.59 ISBN 9781009234276 | www.cambridge.org/universitypress; Reading Bestsellers: Recommendation Culture and the Multimodal Reader Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2023, pb, 104pp, £12.59 ISBN 9781108891042 | www.cambridge.org/universitypress
Torsa Ghosal
Pages: 127-129
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Mister N; Traces of Enayat
Mister N Najwa Barakat. Translated by Luke Leafgren And Other Stories, Sheffield 2022, pb, 256pp, £9.99 ISBN 9781913505325 | www.andotherstories.org; Traces of Enayat Iman Mersal. Translated by Robin Moger And Other Stories, Sheffield 2023, pb, 240pp, £9.99 ISBN 9781913505721 | www.andotherstories.org
Lara El Mekaui
Pages: 130-131
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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The Centre; Meet Us by the Roaring Sea
The Centre Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi Zando, USA 2023, hb, 272pp, $28 ISBN 9781638930549 | https://zandoprojects.com; Meet Us by the Roaring Sea Akil Kumarasamy Picador, New York 2023, pb, 287pp, $18 ISBN 9781250872852 | picadorusa.com
Dur e Aziz Amna
Pages: 132-133
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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Among the contributors

Among the contributors
Pages: 134-136
Published online: 29 Feb 2024
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