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The Briefcase

by Gao Xiaosheng Editor’s note: This is part of the sixth instalment in Henry Ward’s archival project researching Westerly‘s engagement with …
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Memoirs of Everyday Sorrow

by Mahmoud Darwish Editor’s note: This is part of the fifth instalment in Henry Ward’s archival project researching Westerly‘s engagement with …
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Westerly and the Indian Ocean: In Bandung’s Wake (Part 5)

From the Archive: Mahmoud Darwish, ‘Memoirs of Everyday Sorrow’ (September 1979) “When I ask for a permit to dwell in …
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Westerly and the Indian Ocean: In Bandung’s Wake (Part 4)

From the Archive: Sinai C. Hamada, ‘Five Men and the Carcass of a Dog‘ (December 1976) A productive reading of Westerly’s …
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Five Men and the Carcass of a Dog

by Sinai C. Hamada Editor’s note: This is part of the fourth instalment in Henry Ward’s archival project researching Westerly‘s engagement …
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Literary English in the South-East Asian Tradition

by Lloyd Fernando Editor’s note: This is part of the third instalment in Henry Ward’s archival project researching Westerly‘s engagement …
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Westerly and the Indian Ocean: In Bandung’s Wake (Part 3)

From the Archive: Lloyd Fernando, ‘Literary English in the South-East Asian Tradition’ (September 1971) An immediate issue arising from the …
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Westerly and the Indian Ocean: In Bandung’s Wake (Part 2)

From the Archive: T.M. Artingsoll, ‘Australia and Asia: Dr. Burton’s Challenge’ (June 1956) The Afro-Asian Conference of 1955, held …
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Australia and Asia: Dr. Burton’s Challenge

Editor’s note: This post is part of the second instalment in Henry Ward’s archival project that researches Westerly‘s engagement with …
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An Archival Project – Westerly and the Indian Ocean: In Bandung’s Wake

Editor’s Note: For the next four months, research student Henry Ward will be presenting a series of blog posts delving …
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Caged: A Short Story

Pramoedya Ananta Toer, (trans. Soh Liantje), Westerly 11.2 (Oct. 1966): 69-75 BUKIT DURI! It was a few months before the Dutch …
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The Asking Price

by G. M. Glaskin Mr Johnson said to Mrs Johnson: “Somebody’s at last bought the Allingham place.” And Mrs Johnson …
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Jack Kerouac

by ANDREW BURKE “I still ask the Lord ‘Why?’ and haven’t heard a decent answer yet.” Kerouac is dead he …
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Informed by Indifference: A Walk in Antarctica

by BARRY LOPEZ The longest flight I ever made—the metaphysical distance between points, not the hours aloft—was from Christchurch, New …
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Raw Material

by RANDOLPH STOW Some ideas for a new, epic art in an Australian setting. As I remember, what the editors …
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That’s What Its Name Is: Forget-me-not

by SHOKOOFEH AZAR My mother used to say, ‘To dry flowers you have to … hang them upside down … …
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