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  • A Matter of Conscience: Alice Oswald
    May 22, 2026

    A Matter of Conscience: Alice Oswald

    Alice Oswald on what it means to write with and from conscience.

  • A Matter of Conscience: Reni Eddo-Lodge
    May 22, 2026

    A Matter of Conscience: Reni Eddo-Lodge

    Reni Eddo-Lodge on what it means to write with and from conscience.

  • To Which Homeland Should I Send My Letter?
    June 6, 2025

    To Which Homeland Should I Send My Letter?

    Kamran Sajid on Panjabi folk music

  • Ancient Magic vs. Modern Magic: Raphael Cormack in Conversation with Rana Haddad
    May 30, 2025

    Ancient Magic vs. Modern Magic: Raphael Cormack in Conversation with Rana Haddad

    Rana Haddad and Raphael Cormack on holy men, charlatans, and how ‘East’ and ‘West’ saw each other.

  • Postcards
    May 21, 2025

    Postcards

    On International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus, Nobel Laureate Ales Bialiatski on letters, solidarity, and compassion. Translated by Valzhyna Mort.

  • I Don’t Want to Traumatise Children, but I Do Want to Be Truthful: A Conversation with Jacqueline Wilson.
    March 20, 2025

    I Don’t Want to Traumatise Children, but I Do Want to Be Truthful: A Conversation with Jacqueline Wilson.

    Jacqueline Wilson on letters, empathy, book bans.

  • Who Has the Right to Be Grieved?
    March 5, 2025

    Who Has the Right to Be Grieved?

    Susannah Dickey on the true crime media engine, Palestine, grief and the PEN Heaney Prize.

  • After the War Ends
    January 30, 2025

    After the War Ends

    Tetyana Teren on time in London with Victoria Amelina. Translated by Larissa Babij.

  • Past and Future Death and Art
    December 5, 2024

    Past and Future Death and Art

    AJ Layla on legacy and creative instinct.

  • Naomi Klein: An Encomium to Arundhati Roy and Alaa Abd el-Fattah
    November 29, 2024

    Naomi Klein: An Encomium to Arundhati Roy and Alaa Abd el-Fattah

    Naomi Klein’s PEN Pinter Prize 2024 encomium.

  • A Type Beat Under the Pressure Cooker: Reflecting On the First Anniversary of Art Not Evidence
    November 22, 2024

    A Type Beat Under the Pressure Cooker: Reflecting On the First Anniversary of Art Not Evidence

    Adèle Oliver on drill, resistance, and the Art Not Evidence campaign.

  • The Mud of Old Damascus Became My Mud: A Conversation with Issam Kourbaj
    November 14, 2024

    The Mud of Old Damascus Became My Mud: A Conversation with Issam Kourbaj

    Issam Kourbaj on found art, the imagery of boats, and urgent archives.

  • Lina Attalah’s Speech for Alaa Abd el-Fattah, 2024 PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage
    November 4, 2024

    Lina Attalah’s Speech for Alaa Abd el-Fattah, 2024 PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage

    Lina Attalah’s PEN Pinter Prize 2024 speech.

  • The Girls Are Playing with Fire: An Interview with Johanne Lykke Holm
    October 30, 2024

    The Girls Are Playing with Fire: An Interview with Johanne Lykke Holm

    Johanne Lykke Holm on gender, witches, and doppelgängers.

  • No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound that is Palestine: Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize 2024 Speech
    October 15, 2024

    No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound that is Palestine: Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize 2024 Speech

    Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize 2024 speech.

  • Mostar’s Sniper Tower
    October 8, 2024

    Mostar’s Sniper Tower

    Tayiba Sulaiman on memorialisation.

  • When I Walk in Gaza, I Put My Hands in My Pockets
    October 1, 2024

    When I Walk in Gaza, I Put My Hands in My Pockets

    Ahmad Bassiouny writes from Gaza. Translated by Ibrahim Fawzy.

  • Find Your Mind
    September 24, 2024

    Find Your Mind

    Tallulah Howarth on embracing your poetic mind.

  • I Need to Build a Different Library
    September 17, 2024

    I Need to Build a Different Library

    Finlay Worrallo on writerly intentions and the translation of ideas.

  • Writing What We Know
    September 10, 2024

    Writing What We Know

    Jade Prince on writing Gen Z authentically for the screen.

  • Beatnik Snappers and Salt Bae Sprinklers
    September 3, 2024

    Beatnik Snappers and Salt Bae Sprinklers

    Elena Barham on the the ongoing lack of access to the arts for working-class writers.

  • Shouldering the Boat
    August 20, 2024

    Shouldering the Boat

    Sema Kaygusuz on language, water and renewal. Translated by Nicholas Glastonbury.

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