Introduction
Wasafiri’s first issue was published Autumn 1984 as the ATCAL journal (Association for the Teaching of Caribbean, African, Asian and Associated Literatures). From 1986 its subtitle was ‘Perspectives on African, Caribbean, Asian and Black-British Literature’. From 1992 (issue 16) it moved to be called ‘Caribbean, African, Asian and Associated Literatures in English’. From 1998 (issue 27) this subtitle stopped appearing on the cover of the magazine and was only published on the contents page. From 2000 (issue 32) the magazine stopped referring to the Caribbean, African and Asian aspect of its publishing totally. In 2003 (issue 40) the magazine started to use the subtitle ‘the Magazine of International Contemporary Writing’.
As well as the editor, Susheila Nasta, members of the board who have been with the magazine since its inception are Robert Fraser, Lyn Innes, Louis James, Alastair Niven. Regular reviewers and writers have included internationally acclaimed authors who have been with the magazine before they became well-known.
The first ever editorial was from Earl Lovelace, entitled ‘Engaging the World’. He said:
‘I have the impression that this literature of Africa, the Caribbean and Asia is viewed as a thing apart, that it belongs to Africans, Asians and Caribbean people and not to the world. … What then is the world? Who qualifies for the world? Who decides what is the world? Is there a world? Is there one world? Why are we not an automatic part of the world? … We both have to get rid of these posture, comforting as they may seem, for whether it is as supervisor of civilisation or as victim of oppression, both prevent us from the responsibility for the far more exciting and essential task of building in these times a new and human society. We can only do this from where we are, with the experiences that we have; what we share is language, imagination. Nobody is born into the world. Every one of us is born into a place in the world, in a culture, and it is from that standpoint of that culture that we contribute to the world.’
Wasafiri was published twice yearly until 2002 (issue 37) and then came out three times a year. In 2008 it became a quarterly publication.
Highlights from the Issues
Issue 1 (Autumn 1984) included an extract from S Menon Marath, who made his literary debut in 1960 in India and was a foremost Indian novelist.
Issue 2 (Spring 1985) was the first issue to have some writing by Fred D’Aguiar (a review), followed by poems in issue 3
Issue 3 (Autumn 1985) included poems from David Dabydeen
Issue 4 (Spring 1986) included some of Vikram Seth’s early poems and a review of Caryl Phillips’s first novel, The Final Passage
Issue 5 – Caribbean Focus Issue (Autumn 1986) included an interview with novelist Wilson Harris and creative writing by E A Markham, plus a review by future Booker Prize shortlisted Abdulrazak Gurnah
Double issue 6/7 – Focus on Education (Spring/Autumn 1987) published an interview with Ama Ata Aidoo plus first poems by acclaimed Sri Lankan writer Jean Arasanayagam, plus first time we published John Haynes, who won the Costa Poetry Award in 2006 and the Troubadour Poetry Prize in 2007
Issue 8 – Women’s Issue (Spring 1988) featured the now well-known poet Grace Nichols, US writer Paule Marshall
Issue 9 (Winter 1988/9) had long piece on Derek Walcott’s work – now a Nobel Prize winner and also published the poetry of the late Iranian poet and painter, Sohrab Sepehri
Issue 10 (Summer 1989) included the work of the internationally acclaimed Angolan writer Pepetela and also of Mia Couto from Mozambique
Issue 11 (Spring 1990) included poems by the now renowned Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison
Issue 12 (Autumn 1990) included some important letters of the late writer Bessie Head and also included the first writing renowned critic Maya Jaggi did for the magazine – an interview with Earl Lovelace – also published the first poems of now well known poet Patience Agbabi
Issue 13 – Focus on South Asian Writing (Spring 1991) included an interview with Moyez Vassanji
Issue 14 (Autumn 1991) carried an interview with Chinua Achebe, seen as the father of African fiction, plus early poems by Maggie Harris and reviewed Derek Walcott
Issue 15 Focus on the Gambia (Spring 1992) included poems by acclaimed Gambian poet Lenrie Peters and reviews of Biyi Bandele’s first novel and Mimi Khalvati’s first book of poetry
Issue 16 Special Caribbean Issue (Autumn 1992) included the T S Eliot lecture given by Barbadian historian, writer and poet Kamau Brathwaite, plus an interview with the late Jamaican writers Andrew Salkey and a review of Lawrence Scott’s first novel (by Wilson Harris), plus first writing done for us by Biyi Bandele (a review)
Issue 17 Focus on Writing in Britain (Spring 1993) included early poems by Ian Iqbal Rashid, an interview with Shashi Deshpande, an early story by Minoli Salgado, an extract from an early novel Season of the Rainbirds by Nadeem Aslam (whose novel Maps for Lost Lovers received high acclaim in 2006), plus a review of Booker Prize shortlisted Romesh Gunesekera’s Monkfish Moon, first writing for us by Commonwealth Prize-winning writer of 2008 Karen King-Aribisala (a review)
Issue 18 (Autumn 1993) included a major poem by Kamau Brathwaite, some early poems of Jack Mapanje, an interview with the 1986 Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka
Issue 19 (Summer 1994) included poems by Chenjerai Hove and an interview with Jack Mapanje, plus fiction by Karen King-Aribisala
Issue 20 10th Anniversary Special (Autumn 1994) included an interview with Caryl Phillips by Maya Jaggi, poems bySudeep Sen, an article by Wilson Harris, an interview with Nayantara Sahgal
Issue 21 India, Asia and the Diaspora (Spring 1995) included an interview with 2001 Nobel Laureate V S Naipaul(interviewed by Alastair Niven), a poem by Imtiaz Dharker, an interview with Vikram Seth by Sudeep Sen, a short piece by Anita Desai, an early poem of Tabish Khair and of Jeet Thayil, an early poem by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (who later wrote The Mistress of Spices), an early poem of Achmat Dangor, an early poem by Moniza Alvi, an early poem by Romesh Gunesekera
Issue 22 Africa 95 (Autumn 1995) included an interview with 1989 Booker Prize Winner Kazuo Ishiguro, an interview with Biyi Bandele
Issue 23 Post-colonial Writing (Spring 1996) included an interview with Booker Prize shortlisted writer Rohinton Mistry, a poem by Minoli Salgado, creative writing by Booker shortlisted writer Abdulrazak Gurnah and an obituary of environmental rights campaigner and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa
Issue 24 (Autumn 1996) featured the Commonwealth Short Story Prize winners – Syl Cheney-Coker, Punyakante Wijenaike, Laureen Phillip and Charles Flores; plus an interview with Githa Hariharan, poems by Mimi Khalvati
Issue 25 Pacific Writing Special (Spring 1997) included an interview with acclaimed Tongan poet Konai Thaman and with 1985 Booker prize winning writer Keri Hulme
Issue 26 Independence Day: South Asian Writing in English 50 Years On (Autumn 1997) included poems by E A Markham, 100th birthday celebrations of Nirad C Chaudhuri, an Indian historian, essayist and biographer; interviews with George Lamming (by Caryl Phillips) and internationally acclaimed writer Salman Rushdie; creative writing by Attia Hosain
Issue 27 African American Writing (Spring 1998) included an interview with groundbreaking US feminist bell hooks and poems by acclaimed poet Australian John Kinsella
Issue 28 (Autumn 1998) included poems by Jack Mapanje, an interview with Fred D’Aguiar and creative writing by Lawrence Scott and Tessa McWatt
Issue 29 Taking the Cake: Black Writing in Britain (Spring 1999) included interviews with Guardian Fiction Prize winner Jackie Kay and David Dabydeen, an early creative piece by Leila Aboulela (one of the first winners of the Caine Prize for African Writing), early poems from Dorothea Smartt and some early creative writing by Bernardine Evaristo, an article by Kwame Dawes and a short piece by Stuart Hall
Issue 30 Special Focus: Mauritian Writing in English (Autumn 1999) included a short story by Lindsey Collen and an interview with Amit Chaudhuri
Issue 31 The Long March: Migrant Writing in Europe (Spring 2000) included fiction by Guardian Fiction Prize winner Jamal Mahjoub, an interview with Helene Cixous, poetry by Sujata Bhatt and pieces by Assia Djebar and Leila Aboulela
Issue 32 (Autumn 2000) included an interview with Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje, poetry by James Berry and Malika Booker, an extract from a novel in progress (to become 26a) by Diana Evans, poetry by Kwame Dawes, short stories by Leila Aboulela and Courttia Newland plus Kamila Shamsie and Jacob Ross, a novel extract by S I Martin
Issue 33 (Spring 2001) included an interview with Maxine Hong Kingston and a review by Kamila Shamsie
Issue 34 Travellers’ Tales (Autumn 2001) included an interview with Bernardine Evaristo and an extract from The Emperor’s Babe, plus an extract from A New World Order by Caryl Phillips
Issue 35 (Spring 2002) included an interview with playwright and television writer Michael Abbensetts and a story by Tessa McWatt, as well as some poems by Khan Singh Kumar, who would later revert to using his real name, Daljit Nagra (later a Forward Poetry Prize winner)
Issue 36 Writing in Britain: Shifting Geographies (Summer 2002) included Maggie Gee interviewed by Maya Jaggi, writing by E A Markham and Aamer Hussein
Issue 37 Focus on Africa (Winter 2002) included an interview with Vikram Chandra, an early story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, poems by Nii Ayikwei Parkes and an interview with Ama Ata Aidoo
Issue 38 World Poetry (2003) included poems by Kelwyn Sole
Issue 39 (Summer 2003) included an interview with Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer by Hermione Lee, the 2003 World Service Short Story Winners (Tanvir Bush, Chika Unigwe and Michael Sposito) and a poem by John Haynes
Issue 40 Focus on Translation (Winter 2003) included interviews with acclaimed Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Austin Clarke
Issue 41(Spring 2004) included interviews with Courttia Newland and Jacob Ross, an extract by Lawrence Scott and poems by Angus Calder, John Mateer and S A Afolabi
Issue 42 Making Tracks: 20th Anniversary Issue (Summer 2004). This bumper birthday issue was full of renowned authors including: Kamau Brathwaite, Marina Warner, Anita Desai, Maggie Gee, Derek Walcott, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Michael Ondaatje, Jackie Kay, Romesh Gunesekera, Lorna Goodison, Olive Senior, Mimi Khalvati and others. It also included a piece by Earl Lovelace, who had penned the first editiorial in 1984, and an interview with editor Susheila Nasta by Jonathan Barker
Issue 43 Global Cinema (Winter 2004) was guest-edited by Sukhdev Sandhu and included an article by Kodwo Eshunand covered new cinema from the Islamic world, Nollywood films and Pakistan Pashto horror films among others. There was also an interview with Isaac Julien
Issue 44 Frantz Fanon Special Issue (Spring 2005) included the first translation of an important article written in 1969 in German by Jean Amery and the first page of Frantz Fanon’s diary of 1960
Issue 45 (Summer 2005) included an interview with Hari Kunzru (one of Granta’s best young novelists in 2003) and Diana Evans talking to Bernardine Evaristo, plus poems by Tishani Doshi and Lizzy Dijeh
Issue 46 Africa 05 (Winter 2005) included a short story by Segun Afolabi (winner of the 2005 Caine Prize for Fiction for the story ‘Monday Morning’ which had been printed in Wasafiri issue 41 in 2004). There was also an article by James Currey on publishing Bessie Head, plus an interview with Abdulrazak Gurnah and pieces by Caine Prize Winner Chika Unigwe and Brian Chikwava (whose first novel comes out in 2009)
Issue 47 (Spring 2006) included interviews with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Helen Oyeyemi (interviewed by Aminatta Forna) plus an interview with award-winning Indian writer, Nayantara Sahgal, plus a poem by John Haynes
Issue 48 Life Writing (Summer 2006) included an article by Caryl Phillips, interviews with Hanif Kureishi and Blake Morrison (by Susheila Nasta) and Jamaica Kincaid (Marina Warner), plus poems and a story by Jackie Kay
Issue 49 (Winter 2006) included an interview with Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze and an excerpt from a new novel by Erna Brodber, a Commonwealth Writers Regional Shortlisted book, plus one of the first stories written and published in English in 1835 by an Indian writer, Kylas Chunder Dutt
Issue 50 Queer Postcolonial (Spring 2007) guest-edited by Sara Salih included interviews with Valerie Mason-Johnand Dorothea Smartt, fables by Suniti Namjoshi, an extract from Maureen Duffy’s groundbreaking novel Illuminations and poetry by Jackie Kay and Saradha Soobrayen
Issue 51 Cultures of Terror (Summer 2007) guest-edited by Elleke Boehmer and Susheila Nasta included Pankaj Mishra and Tsitsi Dangarembga interviews, pieces by Ahdaf Soueif and Clare Short and poetry by Mahmood Jamaland Saadi Yousef
Issue 52 The Book in the World (Autumn 2007) guest-edited by Robert Fraser and Susheila Nasta included an article by Marina Warner, the short story ‘Cemetery of Life’ by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu which was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2008, and poetry by Lizzy Dijeh
Issue 53 (Spring 2008) included interviews with Olive Senior and Vikram Chandra, acclaimed artist Rasheed Araeenin conversation, poetry by renowned Argentinian poet Luis Benitez and an article by the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize translator Daniel Hahn
Issue 54 (Summer 2008) included interviews with Booker Prize winter Ben Okri and Mohsin Hamid, poetry by Khaled Mattawa and Jeet Thayil and a short story by Mukoma wa Ngugi
Issue 55 Writing China (Autumn 2008) included interviews with Yan Lianke and Mo Yan and poetry by Duo Duo. All of the creative writing was translated from the Chinese and was mostly from writers still living inside China
Issue 56 African Europeans (Winter 2008) included an interview with Assia Djebar, poetry by Agnes Agboton (in Gun, Spanish and English) and Ubax Cristina Ali Farah (in Italian and English). Most of the creative writing was translated from various European languages
Issue 57 Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas (Spring 2009) guest-edited by Bryan Cheyette included interviews with Vikram Seth and Booker shortlisted Linda Grant, a piece by Anita Desai, poetry by Elaine Feinstein and Ruth Fainlight and fiction by Samir El-youssef
Issue 58 (Summer 2009) included an interview with James Kelman and an interview between Bernadine Evaristo and Lizzy Dijeh, poems by Imruh Bakari and Andrew O’Donnell, and a piece by Michael Rice.
Issue 59 25th Anniversary Issue (Autumn 2009) was a particularly rich issue in honour of Wasafiri’s 25th anniversary, featuring poems from Sujata Bhatt and Moniza Alvi, work from Fred D’Aguiar, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Anita Desai, and Maya Jaggi, and interviews from Linton Kwesi Johnson and Doris Lessing.
Issue 60 Children’s Issue (Winter 2009) was guest edited by Beverley Naidoo and Shereen Pandit. It featured poetry from John Agard, Jackie Kay, and Grace Nichols, and articles from Rudine Sims Bishop and Elsa Marston.
Issue 61 (Spring 2010) featured fiction from Nadine Gordimer, life writing from Xu Xi, poetry by Jerome Branch, and a conversation between Sunil Gangopadhyay and K Satchidanandan by Ashok Bery.
Issue 62 Irish Issue (Summer 2010) was guest edited by Glenn Hooper and Gary McKeone. It included an interview with Deirdre Gribbon, poems by Vona Groarke and Matthew Sweenry, and writing from Declan McGonagle, conor McCarthy, and Clíona Ní Ríordáin.
Issue 63 (Autumn 2010) was guest edited by Tabish Khair, and included a conversation between Anita Desai and Kiran Desai with Maggie Gee, as well as writing from Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Elleka Boehmer, poetry by Iain Britton, fiction from Moetai Brotherson, and an interview with Nabaneeta Dev Sen.
Issue 64 Black British Writing (Winter 2010) was guest edited by Bernadine Evaristo and Karen McCarthy Woolf. It included writing from Leone Ross and Jacob Sam-La Rose, an interview between Jackie Kay and Maggie Gee, and art and writing from Jay Bernard.
Issue 65 (Spring 2011) featured an interview between Hirsh Sawney and Richard Ford, as well as an interview with Mohammed Umar, fiction from Bina Shah and Toby Litt, and poetry by Marilyn Hacker and Deema Shehabi.
Issue 66 Indian Oceans Issue (Summer 2011) was guest edited by Stephanie Jones and included interviews with both Ananda Devi and M G Vassanji. It featured fiction by Abdulrazak Gurnah, and a special feature on oral poetry including the likes of Kai Kresse and Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir, translated from Swahili.
Issue 67 (Autumn 2011) included a conversation between Louis James and Mervyn Morris, fiction from Chris Dunton and Mithu Banerji, and new poetry from David Shook and Ruth Vanita, as well as an interview with Adam Thirlwell.
Issue 68 Bush House (Winter 2011) was guest edited by Marie Gillespie, and features an unprecedented range of writers, including poetry translated from Russian, Tamil, and Polish, and fiction from Colin Grant, Hamid Ismailov, and Annabel Dilke, as well as interviews with Zina Rohan and Anwar Hamed.
Issue 69 (Spring 2012) includes fiction by Merih Günay, in interview with Jeet Thayil by Siddartha Bose, and poetry from Amina Saïd and Marilyn Hacker, and an article by Christina Phillips.
Issue 70 Asians in Britain (Summer 2012) was guest edited by Florian Stadtler. It featured interviews with Nayantara Sahgal and Amitav Ghosh, writing from Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Sarah Turner.
Issue 71 (Autumn 2012) included fiction from Beverley Naidoo and a conversation between Earl Lovelace and Monique Roffey. It featured poetry by Jacqueline Bishop and fiction from Marina Buvailo, as well as an interview with H M Naqvi.
Issue 72 Global Youth Culture (Winter 2012) was guest edited by Blake Brandes and Caroline Rooney. It included poetry from Avaes Mohammad, Meena Kandasamy, and Rafeef Ziadah, an in terview with Omar Robert Hamilton, and an article by Rupa Huq.
Issue 73 (Spring 2013) featured fiction from Gabriel Gbadamosi, poetry from Sasenarine Persaud, and articles from Jean Khalfa and Lawrence Scott.
Issue 74 Trinidadian Writing (Summer 2013) was guest edited by Stephanie Decouvelaere and Malachi McIntosh. It featured articles by Alison Donnell, Frank Birbalsingh, and Earl Lovelace, poems from Alison Gibb, and fiction from Lisa Allen-Agostini .
Issue 75 (Autumn 2013) included poetry by Warsham Shire and Swati Rana, fiction from A M Bakalar and Minoli Salgado, an interview with Hari Kunzru, and an article by Pauline Melville.
Issue 76 International Urban Writing (Winter 2013) was guest edited by Courttia Newland and Siddhartha Bose. It included poetry by Sabrina Mahfouz and Jeet Thayil, and interviews with Faïza Guène and Kgebetli Moele.
Issue 77 (Spring 2014) was edited by Stephanie Jones, and included Razmik Davoyan and Arminé Tamrazian in conversation, as well as Imtiaz Dharker in conversation with Tabish Khair. It featured poetry contributions from Terry Jones and Michelle Cahill.
Issue 78 Writing the Balkans (Summer 2014) was guest edited by Vesna Goldsworthy. It included a remarkably strong cross-section of writers from the Balkans, including prize winning poets Alma Lazarevske and Brian Henry, fiction writers David Albahari, and Muharem Bazdulj, and an interview with of Pavle Šosberger.
Issue 79 30th Birthday Issue (Autumn 2014) featured a fantastic cross section of writers for this special anniversary issue, including Caryl Phillips, Bidisha, Kei Miller, Richard Dyer, and Lorna Goodison, as well as a wealth of new voices, and an interview between Deirdre Osborne and Bonnie Greer.
Issue 80 Palestine (Winter 2014) was guest edited by Rachel Holmes. It includes an interview with Omar Barghouti, and another between Imraan Coovadia and Rabai al-Madhoun, as well as poetry by Suheir Hammad and Nathalie Handal, and fiction from Selma Dabbagh.
Issue 81 (Spring 2015) featured new poetry from Kamau Brathwaite, an interview with Anita Desai and another with Shyam Selvadurai, poetry by Louisa Adoja Parker, and fiction by Ifeanyi Onyewuchi.
Issue 82 Brazil (Summer 2015) was guest edited by Fabio Akcelrud Durão and Suman Gupta. It included poetry by Josely Vianna Baptista and Ferreira Gullar, fiction from Susana Fuentes, and featured the work of highly skilled translators, such as the award-winning Hilary Kaplan.
Issue 83 (Autumn 2015) was guest edited by Denise DeCaires Narain. It included a conversation between Abdus Samad and Tabish Khair, fiction from Nikesh Shukla, and poetry by Francine Elena.
Issue 84 Bangladesh (Winter 2015) was guest edited by Ahsan Akbar and K Anis Ahmed. It included non-fiction by Abeer Hoque and Kaiser Haq (who also contributed poetry to the issue), fiction from Shagufta S Tania, and an interview with Tahmima Anam.
Issue 85 (Spring 2016) included work by Brenda Cooper, an interview between Íde Corley and Zanele Muholi, as well as an interview with Mervyn Morris, poems from Richard Georges, and fiction from Romesh Gunesekera,
Issue 86 Australian and South African Poetry (Summer 2016) was edited by Ben Etherington. It included writing from Ingrid de Kok and John Mateer, interviews with Ali Cobby Eckermann and Hedley Twidle, poetry by Antije Krog, Michael Farrell and Kate Fagan, among many others.
Issue 87 (Autumn 2016) was edited by Stephanie Jones. It included a conversation between Carole Burns, Rebecca Smith and Segun Afolabi, fiction from George Makana Clark, and non-fiction from Yvonne Reddick and Candice Pitts.
Issue 88 Print Activism (Winter 2016) was guest edited by Ruth Bush and Madhu Krishnan. It featured poetry from Jamaican Poet Laureate Mervyn Morris and from Nick Makoha, fiction from the Caine Prize nominated Efemia Chela, and was particularly notable for its interviews with key figures in publishing.
Issue 89 (Spring 2017) features poetry from Anne Elvey and Shadab Zeest Hashmi, non-fiction from Vesna Goldsworthy, an interview with Sudeep Sen and another with Kevin Hosein, and fiction from Amita Murray.
Issue 90 Native American Writing (Summer 2017) was guest edited by Kimberly M Blaeser, Maggie Ann Bowers and David Stirrup. It included poetry by Heid E. Erdrich and Joan Naviyuk Kane, creative non-fiction from LeAnne Howe, and interviews with Ralph Salisbury and Margaret Noodin.
Issue 91 Hong Kong (Autumn 2017) was guest edited by Jeffrey Mather and Florian Stadtler. It featured interviews with Nicholas Wong and Xu Xi, fiction from Dorothy Tse, and poetry from Henry W Leung and Shirley Geok-lin Lim (winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize).
Issue 92 (Winter 2017) edited by Arifa Akbar features poetry from Salil Chaturvedi, Raymond Antrobus and John Siddique, fiction from Caroline Kinya Mbaya, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Leonne Ross, Sambudha Sen and Carol McKay, and interviews with Margaret Busby, Kerry Young and Bejan Matur.
Issue 93 Refuge (Spring 2018) was guest edited by Bidisha. It included poetry from Saba Vasefi, Hassan Blasim, Lisa Luxx, Bidisha and Olumide Popoola, fiction from Julia Bell, Selma Dabbagh, an interview with Sophie Hexheimerand articles from Giles Duley, Margaret Toolan, Meike Ziervogel and Lucy Popescu.
Issue 94 (Summer 2018) features a special section on Windrush Women, including interviews with Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, Beryl Gilroy, life writing from Adnan Sarwar and Julie Abrams-Humphries fiction from Ndinda Kioko, Sujit Saraf, Monique McIntosh and Niala Maharaj, poetry from Hannah Lowe and Mehran Waheed, and reviews by Ben Varghese and Anna Bernard.
Issue 95 (Autumn 2018), edited by Rukhsana Yasmin, features interviews with Jennifer Makumbi, Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Nuar Alsadir, fiction by Deepa Anappara, Rupam Baoni, Lauren Kosa and Revathi Krishnaswamy, reviews by Kate Wallis, Valerie Popp, and Adil Bhat.
Issue 96 Korea: Divisions and Borders (Winter 2018), guest edited by Phillip Y Kim and Krys Lee, features articles, alongside fiction by Yun I-hyeong, Jung Jidon, Jung Young Moon, poetry by Pak Jeong-dae, Han Kang, Kim Seung-Hee, interviews with Chang-rae Lee, Jang Jin-sung, among others, and reviews of works by R O Kwon, Mary Lynn Bracht, Han Yujoo,