CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

• SHIRLEY CHEW

POETRY

• MADELEINE LEE, five spice
• NGUYỄN PHAN QUÊ΄ MAI, On Hanoi Street
• LINH DINH, Poking Around South Philly
• ZEYAR LYNN, With the Muzak of a Shopping Centre, Having an Affair with My City, Pebble

FICTION

• AHMAD FUADI, A Half-hearted Decision

DRAMA

• MERLINDA BOBIS, River, River
• HARESH SHARMA, An excerpt from Best Of

ARTICLES

• JEAN TAY, Reclaiming the Islands
• LUCY DAVIS, Multiple Arborealities: Tracing Tales of Teak
• T.K. SABAPATHY, The Secret and the Sacred: Pictures by Sulaiman Esa
• CHARLENE RAJENDRAN, ‘Tensions and Contradictions’: Krishen Jit and Contemporary Southeast Asian Theatre
• MERLINDA BOBIS, JENNIFER CRAWFORD, LUCY NEAVE AND DINAH ROMA Imagine Water: An Archipelago of Mini-Essays on Water as Geography, Resource and Metaphor

INTERVIEWS

• SHIRLEY CHEW, An Interview with Iskandar Jalil
• FLORIAN BALKE, An Interview with Madeleine Thien

REVIEW ESSAY ON ARTHUR YAP

• ANGELIA POON, All about Arthur

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS