Wasafiri 32

Issue 32: Autumn 2000

Interviews with Michael Ondaatje

Fiction by Leila Aboulela, Amit Chaudhuri, Diana Evans, Courttia Newland, Jacob Ross and Kamila Shamsie

Poems by Malika Booker, Kwame Dawes, Kaiser Haq, Mimi Khalvati and Hima Raza

Art essay on Hello Girls! by Chila Kumari Burman

Reviews of Amitav Ghosh's This Glass Palace, Michael Ondaatje's Anil’s Ghost, Amit Chaudhuri's A New World, Maggie Harris's Limbolands, Okey Ndibe's Arrows of Rain, J M Coetzee's Disgrace, Patience Agbabi's Transformatrix, Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies and Moniza Alvi's Carrying My Wife 

 

Susheila Nasta
Editorial

Maya Jaggi
Interviews Michael Ondaatje

James Berry
My Mother’s Mother and other poems

Diana Omo Evans
Seraph, extract from a novel in progress and Sunsets On An Angel

Isobel Dixon
Poem: Weather Eye

Bev Braune
Poem: Wreckage

Leila Aboulela
Fiction: Majed

Kwame Dawes
Sanctuary and other poems

Chila Kumari Burman
Art piece: Hello Girls!

S I Martin
All One Word

Kaiser Haq
Writer’s Retreat and other poems

Mimi Khalvati
Snails and other poems

Malika Booker
Poem: My Father’s Letter

Tariq Mehmood
The Container

Courttia Newland
Fiction:  Dear Barry

Kamila Shamsie
Fiction: Winter

Hima Raza
Poem: For Iqbal

Emily Allen Williams
Interviews Claire Harris

Amit Chaudhuri
Fiction: The Prince of Arragon

Joy Gregory
Photography: The Amberley Queens

Janet Kofi-Tsekpo
Foster Boy and other poems

Jacob Ross
Fiction: The Season of the Souls

Karim Raslan
An Afternoon at the Club

Moni Mohsin
The Visitor

Reviews

Lauri Ramey
Jewell Parker Rhodes Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors
Lorenzo Thomas Sing the Sun Up

Tabish Khair
Amitav Ghosh The Glass Palace
Amit Chaudhuri A New World

Ian Dieffenthaller
Cy Grant Ring of Steel
Maggie Harris Limbolands

Oyeniyi Okunoye
Funso Aiyejina The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories

Nana Yaa Mensha
Courttia Newland and Kadija Sesay, ed IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britai

Harald Leusmann
J M Coetzee Disgrace

Bruce King
Mike Phillips A Shadow of Myself

Alex Tickell
Moniza Alvi Carrying My Wife

Bernardine Evaristo
Jacob Ross  A Way to Catch the Dust

Silvia Albertazzi
Michael Ondaatje Anil’s Ghost

Ian Tromp
Stephen Watson A Writer’s Diary

Alessandra Di Maio
Okey Ndibe Arrows of Rain

Chelva Kanaganayakam
Patience Agbabi Transformatrix

Ranjana Sidhanta Ash
Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies