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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.

  • Books, Books, Books
    July 22, 2022

    Books, Books, Books

    Julian Barnes on collecting books, reading books, and annotating books.

  • I Am a Writer Because My Will to Understand People Is Greater Than My Need to Judge Them: Pajtim Statovci in Conversation with Octavia Bright
    June 28, 2022

    I Am a Writer Because My Will to Understand People Is Greater Than My Need to Judge Them: Pajtim Statovci in Conversation with Octavia Bright

    Pajtim Statovci talks to Octavia Bright about tricky protagonists, Albanian mythology and multilingualism

  • The Freedom and Right to Share Our Stories: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai on Decolonising Literature
    June 21, 2022

    The Freedom and Right to Share Our Stories: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai on Decolonising Literature

    Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai on decolonising literature about Việt Nam by writing in the language of the coloniser.

  • On Translation
    June 14, 2022

    On Translation

    Astrid Alben on language, childhood, photographs and translation.

  • The Words We Choose III: The 2022 International Booker Prize Shortlisted Translators in Conversation
    May 26, 2022

    The Words We Choose III: The 2022 International Booker Prize Shortlisted Translators in Conversation

    The shortlisted translators of the 2022 International Booker Prize in conversation with Ellah P. Wakatama.

  • I Want to Be Commissioned to Review Love Island
    May 19, 2022

    I Want to Be Commissioned to Review Love Island

    June Bellebono on the pigeonholing of identities, being commissioned on topics other than that which you embody, and Love Island.

  • I Do Not Want You to Escape the Real World
    May 10, 2022

    I Do Not Want You to Escape the Real World

    Yara Rodrigues Fowler on material as a part of reading, the making of zines, and writing there are more things.

  • Osman Kavala and the Life of the Mind
    April 22, 2022

    Osman Kavala and the Life of the Mind

    Thomas de Waal on sending Osman Kavala books to read in Silivri Prison.

  • When a Country’s Soul Succumbs: Laws, Migration and Culture
    April 8, 2022

    When a Country’s Soul Succumbs: Laws, Migration and Culture

    The 2022 StAnza Lecture by Mona Arshi.

  • From Ajdabiya to Rome
    March 24, 2022

    From Ajdabiya to Rome

    Najwa Bin Shatwan on her geographic and writerly journey. Translated by Sawad Hussain.

  • Something Different Altogether: A Conversation with Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
    March 17, 2022

    Something Different Altogether: A Conversation with Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

    Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan on Islamophobia, storytelling, and the politics of existing.

  • My Crime, Being Born Illegal: Shen Yang in Conversation with Nicky Harman
    March 9, 2022

    My Crime, Being Born Illegal: Shen Yang in Conversation with Nicky Harman

    Shen Yang speaks to Nicky Harman about the One Child policy, “excess-birth daughters”, and her memoir, More Than One Child.

  • Delhi’s Educational Underbelly
    March 7, 2022

    Delhi’s Educational Underbelly

    Anandi Mishra on Mukherjee Nagar and her journey to writing.

  • In All Its Forms: A Conversation with Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
    February 15, 2022

    In All Its Forms: A Conversation with Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

    Ayanna Lloyd Banwo on ghost stories, love stories, Trinidad, and grief.

  • Something Shadowless, Like You: Nedim Türfent Writes Back to Ai Weiwei from Prison
    February 8, 2022

    Something Shadowless, Like You: Nedim Türfent Writes Back to Ai Weiwei from Prison

    Kurdish poet and journalist Nedim Türfent responds to Ai Weiwei’s postcard.

  • My Character, My Pseudonym, and Me
    January 18, 2022

    My Character, My Pseudonym, and Me

    Fatima Daas on names. Translated by Lara Vergnaud.

  • All My Languages
    January 11, 2022

    All My Languages

    Ariel Saramandi on Mauritius, identity, and the languages in which she writes, thinks and dreams.

  • Dwelling in and ‘Writing’ the City
    December 22, 2021

    Dwelling in and ‘Writing’ the City

    Daniela Hodrová on the city. Translated by Elena Sokol.

  • No Memories, Except Memories of a Memory
    December 20, 2021

    No Memories, Except Memories of a Memory

    Sascha A. Akhtar on the literature of South Asia, and young people translating Urdu poetry.

  • The Epoch of Human Shame: An Interview with Samar Yazbek
    December 8, 2021

    The Epoch of Human Shame: An Interview with Samar Yazbek

    Samar Yazbek on conflict, imagination and literature in Syria. Translated by Leri Price.

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