Routes

Volume 2 Number 1


Routes

Description

This issue includes nine critical essays on the work of V.S Naipaul who turned 70 in 2002, when this issue was published. It also includes new work by prose writers and poets from Britain, Nigeria, India, Singapore, Australia and Canada.

  • Contents
    • 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