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  • Nothing Is Real, Everything Is Real: An Interview with Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja
    February 19, 2026

    Nothing Is Real, Everything Is Real: An Interview with Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja

    Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja on fascism, femicide, and ghosts.

  • Knowing Is a Kind of Pain: An Interview with Vaddey Ratner
    January 29, 2026

    Knowing Is a Kind of Pain: An Interview with Vaddey Ratner

    Vaddey Ratner on memory, narrative history, and storytelling as a means of survival.

  • 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.

  • You Are Now Holding the Embers With Your Bare Hands
    August 1, 2024

    You Are Now Holding the Embers With Your Bare Hands

    Syrian writer Rosa Yassin Hassan on exile. Translated by Nawara Mahfoud.

  • To Fill the Void: A Conversation with Chloe Gong
    July 31, 2024

    To Fill the Void: A Conversation with Chloe Gong

    Chloe Gong on how YA fiction and Shakespeare shaped her writing voice.

  • Caught in the Act
    July 11, 2024

    Caught in the Act

    Abhijeet Singh on the relationship between photography and literature.

  • You Can Become an Extremist in the Course of a Day: An Interview with Friða Ísberg
    June 12, 2024

    You Can Become an Extremist in the Course of a Day: An Interview with Friða Ísberg

    Friða Ísberg on freedom, referenda and Icelandic literature.

  • Creativity Rests in Hunting for the Freedom We Want to Have
    June 4, 2024

    Creativity Rests in Hunting for the Freedom We Want to Have

    Ma Thida on freedom, art, and Myanmar.

  • Languages Learnt, Languages Lost
    May 9, 2024

    Languages Learnt, Languages Lost

    Sophie Lau on the complex relationship with her mother tongue.

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