personal essays – PEN Transmissions

This Is Not an Arthur Koestler Novel – This Is Turkey

Can Bahadır Yüce writes on Turkey’s response to coronavirus, and calls for the release of at-risk political prisoners

South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes writes on lockdown in Cape Town, and spider bites.

Three days from a week of Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares’s coronavirus diary.

Lebanese writer and actress Dima Mikhayel Matta writes on quarantine, revolution, and being queer in Beirut.

Ananda Devi writes on Mauritius and London, the purpose of fiction, and appearing to tread dark territories.

Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian writes on his time in Evin Prison, and music as a form of resistance in the Middle East.