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The magazine of international literature since 1984.
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Four pieces from our most recent issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities, are published open access, meaning they are freely and permanently available to anyone, anywhere.

Swipe through to discover each piece in more detail ➡️
All are available to read for free via Taylor & Francis.
Headline in black on pink background reads: ‘It Cannot Be Left Unchallenged’: Solidarity and the Grammar of Ungovernability. Underneath is black text on a cream background. It reads: Lola Olufemi Academic article Lola Olufemi’s article expands our understanding of solidarity by asking what it might mean to read gestures or actions of solidarity – and the cultural production that emerges from them – as literature. Underneath and to the right is a photo of Lola. She is a Black woman with a shaved head and hoop earrings. She wears a lilac sweater vest.
Headline in black on pink background reads: Interleafing the Philoctetes Figure: Derek Walcott’s Omeros and The Isle is Full of Noises. Underneath and to the right is black text on a cream background. It reads: Winner of the 2025 Wasafiri Essay Prize, Gavin Herbertson analyses two Derek Walcott works by drawing upon a method of ‘interleafing’, a proposed non-hierarchical method of relating texts that offers fresh insight into Walcott’s archive. Underneath and to the left is a photo of Gavin. He is a white man with dark brown, short, side-parted hair. He wears a white shirt and dark grey suit jacket.
Headline in black on pink background reads: You Made Me: A Butch-Femme Love Song. Underneath is black text on a cream background. It reads: Sita Balani writes this piece through her own experience of uncovering the butch-femme dynamic in the early 2000’s alongside a reading of the infamous book by Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues. In doing so, Balani shows us how desire is always present throughout and within acts of solidarity. Underneath and to the right is a photo of Sita Balani. She has very short dark hair. She wears a white t-shirt, thin chain, and watch.
Headline in black on pink background reads: The Nation You Find: In Conversation with Massoud Hayoun. Underneath is black text on a cream background. It reads: Our deputy editor, Vamika Sinha, speaks to this issue’s cover artist, Massoud Hayoun, in a conversation that moves across Hayoun’s paintings of food as political iconography, patriotism and the nation-state, queerness, the psychological experience of getting arrested, and much more. Underneath are photos of Massoud Hayoun and Vamika Sinha. Massoud is on the left and has quiffed dark hair. He has a moustache and is wearing a navy suit jacket over a patterned shirt. Vamika is on the right. She has shoulder length straight black hair. She wears a leather jacket and bright blue scarf.