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.

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’.