‘As a ‘nice’ Asian woman you don’t write about the body’: Bernice Chauly
Wasafiri‘s Associate Editor Alex Tickell talks to Bernice Chauly about contemporary Malaysian writing, cosmopolitanism and taboo topics.
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On Guest-Editing Japan: Literatures of Remembering
In conversation with Elizabeth Chappell, Hiromitsu Koiso and Yasuhiko Ogawa on curating and commissioning our special issue on Japan.
‘I had no room to get a running start, so I had to fly’: Mieko Kawakami
An extract from an interview – first published in Wasafiri 102, ‘Japan: Literatures of Remembering’.
Wasafiri Wonders: Morgan Giles
‘I don’t believe any word is untranslatable, just that we haven’t been imaginative enough.’ Wasafiri Wonders with Morgan Giles.
‘It’s not behind us. It’s not in the past.’
Professor Madhu Krishnan talks to Bristol City Poet, Vanessa Kisuule, about statues, slavery and Black Lives Matter.
‘Soft Liquid Rigour’: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
‘A text that refuses the boundaries we were meant to exist within.’ Imani Robinson and Ebun Sodipo review Saidiya Hartman.
Marching with Mandela’s Grandchildren
Thomas Glave, Wasafiri‘s Associate Editor, reports from the UK’s Black Lives Matter marches.
Less Than Perfect by Prateek Nigam
Shortlisted for the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Fiction category.
Diary From The Third Millennium by Thomas Waller
Shortlisted for the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize in the Poetry category.
