PEN Transmissions

August 4, 2020

Black Deaths Matter: About My Father

Patrice Lawrence writes about her father, Windrush, and death.

July 28, 2020

Storms

Barbadian speculative fiction writer Karen Lord writes before and after a storm.

July 21, 2020July 21, 2020

Some Place to Call Home

Yvonne Battle-Felton on listening, fear, and home.

May 17, 2018January 22, 2020

On the move: a conversation with Olga Tokarczuk

The concept of a ‘nation’ doesn’t have the power to describe the contemporary identity of people living in the world. We should look for other ideas to describe us as a collective, as a group, as a society.

May 5, 2020July 21, 2020

Art Is a Tool for Thinking: An Interview with Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing discusses the power of art in an emergency, the role of bad art, and our current weather.

July 17, 2020July 31, 2020

After Saartjie: The Persistence of Prejudice

Dzifa Benson writes on contemporary and historical perceptions of black women’s bodies

July 17, 2020July 31, 2020

Editorial: Black Voices

Our editorial on forthcoming work in PEN Transmissions.

June 30, 2020July 21, 2020

The Global Desi Story: A Conversation with Kritika Pandey

Kritika Pandey, winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, talks about transgressing cultural norms, protesting, and Hinglish.

June 25, 2020July 21, 2020

Exils

To close our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Scholastique Mukasonga writes a personal experience of exile as a Rwandan Tutsi

June 23, 2020June 30, 2020

Latinx Letters: An Interview with Leo Boix

Leo Boix discusses bilingualism, British Latinx poetry, and race in Latin America.

June 18, 2020July 21, 2020

Remembering Partition

For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Kavita Puri writes on partition, memory and exile.