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Cathy Park Hong and Minor Feelings
Sharlene Teo talks to Cathy Park Hong for our special issue on Writing Whiteness. Plus, read an exclusive extract from Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning.
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Cathy Park Hong and Minor Feelings
Sharlene Teo talks to Cathy Park Hong for our special issue on Writing Whiteness. Plus, read an exclusive extract from Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning.
Exclusive Excerpt: The Distance by Ivan Vladislavić
An exclusive excerpt from Ivan Vladislavić’s new novel, The Distance, narrated jointly by two brothers, Joe and Branko, as they unearth memories of their childhood in Apartheid South Africa, in 1970s suburban Pretoria, published as part of our online coverage on Writing Whiteness.
Wasafiri Wonders: Maaz Bin Bilal
‘The poetry reaches the paper in a flow, having been on the mind for a while, and is later to be edited, while the translation first drafts are tediously practised and mulled over, for almost every line, in the first draft itself.’ Wasafiri Wonders with Maaz Bin Bilal.
LATEST ISSUE
Issue 103
Editorial The Unbearable Lightness of Whiteness
Interviews Cathy Park Hong; Alex Wheatle
Articles ‘Whitely’: Race and Lyric Subjectivity in Clare Pollard’s Poetry; Re-Reading Penelope Lively’s Oleander Jacaranda; Other White
Art Thinking Through Race in Bruce Nauman's Body Painting
Fiction Laure Baudot, Alicia Mietus, Lijia Zhang
Poetry Jennie Owen, Bibhu Padhi, Desirée Seebaran, Jeremy Wikeley
Life-writing Claire Hynes, Ruby D. Jones
Review Essay Political and Planetary Panic: Penning Motherhood in Trump’s America
Reviews Claire Adam, Golden Child; Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, ed., Mother Country: Real
Stories of the Windrush Children; Hebe Uhart, The Scent of Buenos Aires;
Fikr Taunsvi, The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India
and more...
(Ships 1 September 2020)
LATEST NEWS
Welcoming Vicky Unwin as the new Chair to Wasafiri’s Board of Trustees
A key member of the original organisation that lead to the magazine’s founding in 1984, Unwin returns to Wasafiri 35 years later.
Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize partners with The Good Literary Agency
We’re delighted to announce an additional prize that will be awarded to this year’s shortlist.
BookBound 2020: A Virtual Literary Festival
Find out more and see the full programme of events.