• Coffee Corner

    Coffee Corner

    Bushra al-Maqtari on how Sana’a, Yemen, has changed. Translated by Sawad Hussain.

  • 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.

  • Copyright

    Russian writer Kirill Medvedev discusses intellectual property, the concept of the common good and his vision for the future of ideas.

  • Hong Kong literature inside and outside of the Umbrella Movement

    Dorothy Tse investigates the role of literature in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, and asks what the future of Hong Kong literature is.

  • PEN Atlas Q&A: Etgar Keret

    A PEN Atlas Q&A with Etgar Keret, who is in the UK promoting his PEN-supported essay collection The Seven Good Years.

  • An enigma called money

    Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor. I have never seen any difference between personal experience and fiction. We never invent as much as when we are recounting what has happened to us. What is ‘lived experience’ if not debatable traces, fantasies, false memories, lacunae we fill with realism or fables? Strictly speaking, my project…

  • Richard Weiner Finds Himself in an Awkward Situation

    Benjamin Paloff sheds light on the life and work of Richard Weiner (1884–1937), widely considered to be one of the most important Czech writers of the 20th century even though his writing was suppressed until 1989.

  • PEN Atlas Q&A: Roberto Saviano

    Investigative reporter Roberto Saviano discusses his latest book Zero Zero Zero, the global cocaine trade, and the personal cost of speaking the truth.

  • Protest as Dance

    Ahead of his appearance at Ledbury Poetry Festival, poet and translator George Szirtes writes on the lyricism and wit at the heart of poetic protest.

  • PEN Atlas Q&A: Margaret Mazzantini

    The author of PEN-supported novel Morning Sea discusses links between writing, revolution and dreaming, and Italy’s complex relationship with emigration

  • Pol Pot’s engaging smile

    Peter Idling writes for PEN Atlas on the man who would be Pol Pot, the darker side of human nature and what drives people to destruction

  • Pol Pot's engaging smile

    Peter Idling writes for PEN Atlas on the man who would be Pol Pot, the darker side of human nature and what drives people to destruction

  • Wole Soyinka’s poetry: the insistence on liberty

    Wole Soyinka’s poetry: the insistence on liberty

    Carmen Bugan on Wole Soyinka’s insistence on liberty.