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Coffee Corner
Bushra al-Maqtari on how Sana’a, Yemen, has changed. Translated by Sawad Hussain.
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Dissolving Sugar in Water: A Long Conversation with Solvej Balle
Solvej Balle on time, morality, and searching.
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Panashe Chigumadzi on Tsitsi Dangarembga, commissioned to celebrate Dangarembga winning the 2021 PEN Pinter Prize.
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Tice Cin on North London, North Cyprus, and sensitivity reads.
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Lauren Elkin on translating de Beauvoir’s newly discovered novel The Inseparables.
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French-Lebanese writer Charif Madjalani in conversation with journalist Ben East.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri on Saadat Hasan
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Selahattin Demirtaş on ‘home’, state-sanctioned writing, and what makes literature literature. Translated by Kate Ferguson.
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Tim Burrows’ long read on housing, the green belt, urban development and climate activism in Essex.
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Anna Aslanyan on the perils of translating news.
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An imaginary interview with Mario Levrero and Mario Levrero, translated and introduced by Annie McDermott.
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Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu writes to Amanuel Asrat on his 50th birthday. Translated by Issayas Beyene.
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Ayça Türkoğlu, Filiz Emre, Gitanjali Patel, Harriet Phillips, Jessie Spivey, Katharine Halls, Kavita Bhanot, Khairani Barokka, Naima Rashid, Nariman Youssef, Mohini Gupta and Reem Abou-El-Fadl
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Shash Trevett on the poetry of Nillanthan.
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Samira Sedira discusses race, class, resentment and crime.
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Worapoj Panpong on family, land, and money. Translated from the Thai by Mui Poopoksakul
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Noʻu Revilla, Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), on the power of ecopoetry
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Karlo Mila on language, knowledge, and right relationships.
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The shortlisted translators of the 2021 International Booker Prize in conversation with Maureen Freely.
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Nayrouz Qarmout writes from Gaza
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Suad Aldarra’s commission for the 2021 Cúirt International Festival of Literature, part of the PEN x Common Currency residency.
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Nadine Anne Hura (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) on climate, making time, and making people listen.
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