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  • On the novel Laurus

    Eugene Vodolazkin writes on using the language of the past to construct new meaning for the present, and the medieval and postmodern influences for his new novel Laurus.

  • Building Bridges: The Conrad Festival in Kraków

    The Feminist Press’s Lauren Hook sends a dispatch from Kraków’s annual Conrad Festival, reflecting particularly on the inspiring women writers she met there.

  • #freeslahi: An appeal for justice

    Larry Siems, director of the Freedom to Write and International Programs at PEN American Center, makes an impassioned plea for the case of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, imprisoned at Guantánamo.

  • An Affirming Flame: the voice of Kyiv

    Two years after the Euromaidan movement began, translator Steve Komarnyckyj speaks to prominent Ukrainian writers about free speech and the influence of the Kremlin in Kyiv.

  • An Affirming Flame; the voice of Kyiv

    Two years after the Euromaidan movement began, translator Steve Komarnyckyj speaks to prominent Ukrainian writers about free speech and the influence of the Kremlin in Kyiv.

  • On Translating Orwell's Animal Farm

    Zimbabwean lawyer Petina Gappah, founder of The Orwell Project, reflects on revolutions, betrayals, and the universality of Orwell’s masterpiece.

  • On Translating Orwell’s Animal Farm

    Zimbabwean lawyer Petina Gappah, founder of The Orwell Project, reflects on revolutions, betrayals, and the universality of Orwell’s masterpiece.

  • Crossing cultures

    Former child refugee Gulwali Passarlay shares his experience of stepping into a new life in the UK and discusses the publication of his memoir, The Lightless Sky.

  • 'Banned from entry to Bahrain'

    Marc Owen Jones, co-editor of a new book exploring the personal stories behind the Arab Spring’s ‘forgotten front’, shares his experiences of Bahrain as a child growing up and now.

  • ‘Banned from entry to Bahrain’

    Marc Owen Jones, co-editor of a new book exploring the personal stories behind the Arab Spring’s ‘forgotten front’, shares his experiences of Bahrain as a child growing up and now.

  • Over the sound of the drone

    Atef Abu Saif discusses his latest publication – a collection of diary entries from the Gaza Strip – and reports on Gaza’s thriving cultural scene.

  • The Day of the Nation

    In 2012, activist and blogger Raif Badawi was convicted for ‘insulting Islam through electronic channels’. He was sentenced to a fine of one million riyals (£175,000), ten years in prison and 1,000 lashes. To mark Saudi Arabia’s national day (23 September), here is an extract from Badawi’s forthcoming book.

  • PEN Atlas Q&A: Aleksandar Hemon

    A PEN Atlas Q&A with Aleksandar Hemon, whose novel The Making of Zombie Wars is published by Picador Books this month.

  • Far from Pompeii

    Susana Moreira Marques, author of Now and at the Hour of our Death, writes of obsolescence, loss and remembering in a rural town in northern Portugal.

  • For sale along with the book

    On the occasion of the publication of her latest novel, Elena Ferrante discusses her creative choices and her desire to remain anonymous.

  • Writing is like dragging rocks over ice

    Ahead of his appearance at Edinburgh International Book Festival, Jesús Carrasco muses on writing as work and why perseverance makes poetry.

  • The European Mohammed and the Ignorance of the Educated

    The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize-winning author of The Iraqi Christ responds to the European refugee crisis.

  • 'No se mata la verdad' / 'You cannot kill the truth'

    Acclaimed journalist and activist Lydia Cacho responds to the murder of the Mexican photojournalist Rubén Espinosa.

  • ‘No se mata la verdad’ / ‘You cannot kill the truth’

    Acclaimed journalist and activist Lydia Cacho responds to the murder of the Mexican photojournalist Rubén Espinosa.

  • Trading Stories

    Roland Gulliver, Associate Director of Edinburgh International Book Festival, shares thoughts on this year’s theme, Trading Stories.