Features

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.

‘Here, take my brain, each last lobe / one hundred billion empty neurons / firing, its shocks so blunt, my thoughts disrobed’ — a poem by Jennie Owen, contributor to Wasafiri 103.

Holly Fathi on finding British-Iranian literature—and on joining in on the conversation of what ‘British writing’ means in the 21^st century.

Wasafiri‘s Associate Editor Alex Tickell talks to Bernice Chauly about contemporary Malaysian writing, cosmopolitanism and taboo topics.

In conversation with Elizabeth Chappell, Hiromitsu Koiso and Yasuhiko Ogawa on curating and commissioning our special issue on Japan.

An extract from an interview – first published in Wasafiri 102, ‘Japan: Literatures of Remembering’.

‘I don’t believe any word is untranslatable, just that we haven’t been imaginative enough.’ Wasafiri Wonders with Morgan Giles.

Professor Madhu Krishnan talks to Bristol City Poet, Vanessa Kisuule, about statues, slavery and Black Lives Matter.

‘A text that refuses the boundaries we were meant to exist within.’ Imani Robinson and Ebun Sodipo review Saidiya Hartman.