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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.

‘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. 

‘When I watched Men In Black years later as an adult, I saw ‘Tiffany’ through that lens and the poem began to grow.’ Inua Ellams introduces his forthcoming collection, The Actual.

A new poem, published and performed as part of the online coverage for our latest issue, Wasafiri 103, featuring a special section on ‘Writing Whiteness’.

The winner of the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award on writing love and violence, the ordinary and the overlooked, and the novel as ‘a chance to exhale’.

‘Listen, habibi, when NASA gives you that application form, lead with this. ‘Dear NASA,’ said Basil, now putting on a voice with a higher pitch than his own, ‘the moon reminds me a bit of Dubai.’ From Naji Bakhti’s first book about a young boy coming of age in post-civil-war Beirut.

Read an exclusive extract from Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, contributor to Wasafiri 102, Japan: Literatures of Remembering.

On reading Woolf, literary privilege, and finding a room of one’s own. From Wasafiri 103.

If My Darling from the Lions were a music album, ‘it be would be Whitney Houston does a grime inflected album, with special features from Rhianna, Stormzy, Skepta, David Bowie.’ Wasafiri Wonders with Rachel Long.