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Nothing Is Real, Everything Is Real: An Interview with Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja
Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja on fascism, femicide, and ghosts.
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Knowing Is a Kind of Pain: An Interview with Vaddey Ratner
Vaddey Ratner on memory, narrative history, and storytelling as a means of survival.
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Bushra al-Maqtari on how Sana’a, Yemen, has changed. Translated by Sawad Hussain.
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Solvej Balle on time, morality, and searching.
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Sabrina Mahfouz’s 2025 PEN Pinter Prize encomium.
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Stella Gaitano, PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage 2025.
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Hajera Khaja on telling her friend’s story.
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The Inaccurate Mirror: Leila Aboulela’s PEN Pinter Prize 2025 Speech
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Deepa Rajagopalan on creating space at the centre.
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Em Dial on archives and invitations of silence.
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Christine Wu on reimagining family history.
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Nurcan Baysal on Kurdish language, culture and identity. Translated by Nazım Dikbas.
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Magdalena Blažević on the massacre of Kiseljak.
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Jordan Aitcheson-Labarr on viewing a turbulent world through Hip Hop
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Kamila Shamsie’s 2025 PEN Lecture.
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Sana – a pseudonym – writes from Iran.
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Kamran Sajid on Panjabi folk music
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Rana Haddad and Raphael Cormack on holy men, charlatans, and how ‘East’ and ‘West’ saw each other.
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On International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus, Nobel Laureate Ales Bialiatski on letters, solidarity, and compassion. Translated by Valzhyna Mort.
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Jacqueline Wilson on letters, empathy, book bans.
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Susannah Dickey on the true crime media engine, Palestine, grief and the PEN Heaney Prize.
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Tetyana Teren on time in London with Victoria Amelina. Translated by Larissa Babij.
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