Read Jay Bernard’s ‘England Street (Reggae fi Linton)’, commissioned to celebrate Linton Kwesi Johnson winning the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize. Featuring a specially commissioned introduction to the poem from Jay.
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A Dossier of Hate
Priyamavada Gopal writes on her experience of online hatred, and calls for an end to a politics of hate.
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Translating Every Day: The Importance and Impossibility of Decolonising Translation
Kavita Bhanot writes on mother-tongue shame, translating across generations, and decolonising translation.
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When an Hour Stretched into A Day
Tsitsi Dangarembga, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, writes on demonstrating, writing, and being arrested.
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Another Unknown Person Ringing at My Door: A Statement from Svetlana Alexievich
A statement from Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate and Chair of Belarusian PEN.
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Hope in a Bottle of Honey
Kurdish writer Nurcan Baysal responds to a letter from Nedim Türfent.
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Translating Fascisms
Alex Valente on translating fascism between Italy, the UK and the US.
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Black Deaths Matter: About My Father
Patrice Lawrence writes about her father, Windrush, and death.
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Storms
Barbadian speculative fiction writer Karen Lord writes before and after a storm.
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Some Place to Call Home
Yvonne Battle-Felton on listening, fear, and home.
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After Saartjie: The Persistence of Prejudice
Dzifa Benson writes on contemporary and historical perceptions of black women’s bodies
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Disturbing the Comfortable and Comforting the Disturbed
Andrzej Tichý writes on music and migrant experience
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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
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Zoonotic
South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes writes on lockdown in Cape Town, and spider bites.
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Plague Diary: A Week
Three days from a week of Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares’s coronavirus diary.
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How to Quarantine a Revolution
Lebanese writer and actress Dima Mikhayel Matta writes on quarantine, revolution, and being queer in Beirut.
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Who Gets to Write What?
Ananda Devi writes on Mauritius and London, the purpose of fiction, and appearing to tread dark territories.
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Free Music
Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian writes on his time in Evin Prison, and music as a form of resistance in the Middle East.
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Translating Ulysses for Iran
Iranian-Canadian novelist and translator Akram Pedramnia writes on translating James Joyce into Persian, evading the censors, and imperial co-option of resistance.
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With Care
Indonesian writer and artist Khairani Barokka writes on ableism in literature and translation.
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