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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.

  • The Threat of the Mob: An Interview with Anuradha Roy
    November 30, 2021

    The Threat of the Mob: An Interview with Anuradha Roy

    Anuradha Roy on artists facing threat, publishing in India, and literary dogs.

  • The Mountbatten Materials: Censoring an Archive
    November 2, 2021

    The Mountbatten Materials: Censoring an Archive

    Andrew Lownie on making the Mountbatten diaries and letters public, and the importance of writers’ access to archives.

  • Listening to the Flesh: For Tsitsi Dangarembga
    October 28, 2021

    Listening to the Flesh: For Tsitsi Dangarembga

    Panashe Chigumadzi on Tsitsi Dangarembga, commissioned to celebrate Dangarembga winning the 2021 PEN Pinter Prize.

  • Everyone’s In, Everyone’s Out: A Conversation with Tice Cin
    October 26, 2021

    Everyone’s In, Everyone’s Out: A Conversation with Tice Cin

    Tice Cin on North London, North Cyprus, and sensitivity reads.

  • Translating Simone de Beauvoir
    October 6, 2021

    Translating Simone de Beauvoir

    Lauren Elkin on translating de Beauvoir’s newly discovered novel The Inseparables.

  • At the Foot of the Volcano: Charif Majdalani in Conversation with Ben East
    September 28, 2021

    At the Foot of the Volcano: Charif Majdalani in Conversation with Ben East

    French-Lebanese writer Charif Madjalani in conversation with journalist Ben East.

  • He Can Hardly Even Be Approached: On Saadat Hasan Manto
    September 10, 2021

    He Can Hardly Even Be Approached: On Saadat Hasan Manto

    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri on Saadat Hasan

  • The Great Homeless of Literature
    August 26, 2021

    The Great Homeless of Literature

    Selahattin Demirtaş on ‘home’, state-sanctioned writing, and what makes literature literature. Translated by Kate Ferguson.

  • Everywhere in Essex, They Are Building
    August 21, 2021

    Everywhere in Essex, They Are Building

    Tim Burrows’ long read on housing, the green belt, urban development and climate activism in Essex.

  • Journalation
    August 11, 2021

    Journalation

    Anna Aslanyan on the perils of translating news.

  • Mario Levrero in Conversation with Mario Levrero
    August 6, 2021

    Mario Levrero in Conversation with Mario Levrero

    An imaginary interview with Mario Levrero and Mario Levrero, translated and introduced by Annie McDermott.

  • To Dearest, Cherished and Longed Amanuel
    July 26, 2021

    To Dearest, Cherished and Longed Amanuel

    Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu writes to Amanuel Asrat on his 50th birthday. Translated by Issayas Beyene.

  • Translating Place and Places of Translation: A Conversation Between the Shadow Heroes Collective
    July 22, 2021

    Translating Place and Places of Translation: A Conversation Between the Shadow Heroes Collective

    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

  • By Nanthikadal Lagoon, Our Dreams Lie Rusting in the Mud
    July 8, 2021

    By Nanthikadal Lagoon, Our Dreams Lie Rusting in the Mud

    Shash Trevett on the poetry of Nillanthan.

  • In Their Minds: An Interview with Samira Sedira
    July 2, 2021

    In Their Minds: An Interview with Samira Sedira

    Samira Sedira discusses race, class, resentment and crime.

  • My Mother’s Land Is Over
    June 19, 2021

    My Mother’s Land Is Over

    Worapoj Panpong on family, land, and money. Translated from the Thai by Mui Poopoksakul

  • EROSION, A6: Notes on the Waikīkī Blackout Poetry Project
    June 10, 2021

    EROSION, A6: Notes on the Waikīkī Blackout Poetry Project

    Noʻu Revilla, Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), on the power of ecopoetry

  • We Too Are the Trees
    June 3, 2021

    We Too Are the Trees

    Karlo Mila on language, knowledge, and right relationships.

  • The Words We Choose II: A Roundtable with the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Translators
    May 28, 2021

    The Words We Choose II: A Roundtable with the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Translators

    The shortlisted translators of the 2021 International Booker Prize in conversation with Maureen Freely.

  • My Eraser is a Memory
    May 15, 2021

    My Eraser is a Memory

    Nayrouz Qarmout writes from Gaza

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