Wasafiri 76: Metropoles - International Inner-City Writing
Issue 76: Winter 2013
Metropoles: International Inner-City Writing
Fiction by Ray Banks, Heather Imani, George McAllister and Leila Segal
Poems by Tom Chivers, Alan King, Sabrina Mahfouz, Simon Mole, Jeet Thayil and Joelle Taylor
Interviews with Faiza Guene, Victor LaValle and Kgebetli Moele.
Articles on Ramallah: a villa in the midst of a jungle, the inner city and the 'Hoodie', and colonial London and its postcolonial migrants
Art Essay on Kofi Allen, Artist: 'Life, Oh Life'
Reviews of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in the Mumbai Undercity, Sonia Faleiro's Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars, Romany WG's Out of Sight: Urban Art/Abandoned Spaces, Teju Cole's Open City, J M Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus, Shimmer Chinodya's Chioniso & Other Stories, Christopher Mlalazi's Running With Mother, Junot Díaz's This is How You Lose Her, Barbara Jenkins's Sic Transit Wagon and Other Stories, Amara Lakhous's Divorce Islamic Style
and Tabish Khair 's how to fight Islamist terror from the missionary position
Contents
Editorial
Fatimah Kelleher
An Interview with Faïza Guène
Heather Imani
Fiction: The Flight of the Seventh Sirocco
Omar El-Khairy
Writing Ramallah: a villa in the midst of a jungle
Sabrina Mahfouz
Poems
Kevin Le Gendre
Night of the Living Dead: An Interview with Kgebetli Moele
Abdul Ali
A Conversation with Victor LaValle
Alan King
Poems
Priya Khanchandani
Kofi Allen, Artist: 'Life, Oh Life'
Charlotte Bell
The Inner City and the 'Hoodie'
Joelle Taylor
poems
Koye Oyedeji
Out of the Frying Pan ... (Literary London Still Has a Colonial Welcome for its Postcolonial Migrants)
George McAllister
Fiction: The Beasts We Welcome
Tom Chivers
Poems
Leila Segal
Fiction: John
Jeet Thayil
Poem
Simon Mole
Poem
Ray Banks
Fiction: Alpha Male
Reviews
Nikhil Kumar
Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in the Mumbai Undercity
Sonia Faleiro Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
Stephen Thompson
Colin Channer, ed Kingston Noir
Sunil Chauhan
Roelof Bakker, ed Still: Short Stories Inspired by Photographs of Vacated Spaces
Romany WG Out of Sight: Urban Art/Abandoned Spaces
James Miller
Teju Cole Open City
T M Wolf Sound
Alicia Broggi
J M Coetzee The Childhood of Jesus
Robert Fraser
Zoe Norridge Perceiving Pain in African Literature
Ranka Primorac
Shimmer Chinodya Chioniso & Other Stories
Christopher Mlalazi Running With Mother
Monique Roffey
Junot Díaz This is How You Lose Her
Barbara Jenkins Sic Transit Wagon and Other Stories
Aurogeeta Das
Keki N Daruwalla Love Across the Salt Desert: Selected Short Stories
Chandani Lokugé Softly, As I Leave You
Federico Fabris
Amara Lakhous Divorce Islamic Style
Tabish Khair how to fight Islamist terror from the missionary position
Omar Sabbagh
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, ed Poetry of the Taliban
Owen Gallagher Tea with the Taliban
Malachi McIntosh
Eva Ulrike Pirker Narrative Projections of Black British History
Elaine Proctor Rhumba
