Wasafiri 83

Issue 83: Autumn 2015

Fiction by Manohar Mouli Biswas, Mark Czanik, Lauri Kubuitsile , Bob Van Laerhoven and Nikesh Shukla

Poems by Tara Ballard, Ian Dudley, Francine Elena, Aswini Kumar Mishra, John McKernan and Elisabete Tolaretxipi

Interviews with Nadeem Aslam and Abdus Samad

Articles on the narcotic memes of Bombay in Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis, drawing the visibility and the invisibility of a room: A personal essay and Tan Twan Eng’s The Garden of Evening Mists

Art Essay on Melvin Edwards: The Poetic of the Blacksmith

Reviews of Yasmin Gunaratnam's Death and the Migrant: Bodies, Borders and Care, Charlie Phillips's How Great Thou Art, Minoli Salgado's A Little Dust in the Eyes, Romesh Gunesekera's Noon Tide Toll, Ruth Padel's Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth, Monique Roffey 'sHouse of Ashes, Okey Ndibe's Foreign Gods, Inc, Deji Olukotun's Nigerians in Space and The Obliterary Journals Volumes 1 and 2 edited Rakesh Khanna and Rashmi Ruth Devadasan

Denise deCaires Narain
Editorial

Tabish Khair
Abdus Samad in Conversation

Francine Elena
Poem

Manohar Mouli Biswas
Fiction: Nanchera Valmiki (Translated from the Bangla by Sipra Mukherjee)

Aswini Kumar Mishra
Poem (Translated from the Oriya by Rohini Kanta Mukherjee)

Maurice O'Connor
The Narcotic Memes of Bombay: Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis

Ian Dudley
Poems

Mark Czanik
Fiction: The Bargain Hunter

Yuen-yi Lo
Drawing the visibility and the invisibility of a room: A personal essay

Nikesh Shukla
Fiction: Black Momma Ass

John McKernan
Poem

Amina Yaqin
Nadeem Aslam in Conversation

Bob Van Laerhoven
Fiction: The Abomination

Daniel McKay
Don't Hate the British: Old Boer Wisdom in Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists

Tara Ballard
Poem

Elisabete Tolaretxipi
Poem (Translated from the Spanish by the author)

Lauri Kubuitsile
Fiction: Throw Away Girls

Lydie Diakhaté
Melvin Edwards: The Poetic of the Blacksmith

Sophie Harris
Parallel Worlds: Riding through the Caribbean Archipelago with Monique Roffey

Reviews

Obioma R Ofoego
Samantha Pinto Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic
Jeremy Braddock and Jonathan Eburne, ed Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic: Literature Modernity, and Diaspora
Edwin C Hill Jr Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic

Sukdev Sandhu
Yasmin Gunaratnam Death and the Migrant: Bodies, Borders and Care
Charlie Phillips How Great Thou Art

Jana Funke
Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Bénédict Ledent and Robert del Valle Alcalá, ed The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities
Chantal Zabus and David Coad, ed Transgender Experience: Place, Ethnicity, and Visibility

Ben Verghese
Rakesh Khanna and Rashmi Ruth Devadasan, ed The Obliterary Journals Volumes 1 and 2

Carol Leon
Merryn Glover A House Called Askival
Raj Pavan Home to Lanka

Divya Dubey
Minoli Salgado A Little Dust in the Eyes
Romesh Gunesekera Noon Tide Toll

Patricia Duffaud
Amjad Nasser Land of No Rain
Penny Johnson and Raja Shehadeh, ed Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home

Alicia Broggi
Ruth Padel Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth
Mai Al-Nakib The Hidden Light of Objects

Aurogeeta Das
Maggie Awadalla and Paul March-Russell, ed The Postcolonial Short Story: Contemporary Essays
Saikat Majumdar Prose of the World

Emma Bird
Adil Jussawalla Maps for a Mortal Moon: Essays and Entertainment

Ronald Adamolekun
Monique Roffey House of Ashes

Nisha Obano
Okey Ndibe Foreign Gods, Inc.
Deji Olukotun Nigerians in Space