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Knowing Is a Kind of Pain: An Interview with Vaddey Ratner
Vaddey Ratner on memory, narrative history, and storytelling as a means of survival.
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Coffee Corner
Bushra al-Maqtari on how Sana’a, Yemen, has changed. Translated by Sawad Hussain.
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Tasja Dorkofikis interviews Arno Camenish about his bilingual novel,
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Elena Ferrante writes for PEN Atlas about the impact of reading Madame Bovary
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Syrian journalist and short story writer Rasha Abbas interrogates the role of art and literature in conflict
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Andrey Kurkov reports on the latest news from Ukraine,
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Michelle Bailat-Jones writes for PEN Atlas about Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, a contemporary of Robert Walser
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Michelle Bailat-Jones writes for PEN Atlas about Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, a contemporary of Robert Walser
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Paulo Scott writes for PEN Atlas about the need for Brazilian authors to move away from stories about ‘white guys, living in the big urban centres’, and how a vain desire for durability has stunted the literature of his country
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To commemorate the centenary of The Great War, PEN Atlas takes us to Belgium
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To commemorate the centenary of The Great War, PEN Atlas takes us to Belgium
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To celebrate International Cat Day, Lena Devani writes from Greece for PEN Atlas
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To celebrate International Cat Day, Lena Devani writes from Greece for PEN Atlas
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Sophie Lewis writes for PEN Atlas about the once sleepy and secluded town of Paraty, Brazil, now home to one of the continent’s best and most varied literary festivals
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Ahmed Masoud writes about his son Zino and his trips to the beach in Gaza
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Nayrouz Qarmout follows her short story for PEN Atlas with a gripping diary piece from the heart of the conflict in Gaza
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A rare and incredibly moving piece of fiction from Gaza, from writer and activist Nayrouz Qarmout
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Tomás González writes for PEN Atlas about the act of literary creation, the qualms over writing about family tragedy, and how one shocking night on a beach in Colombia changed his life
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Michel Laub, author of Diary of the Fall, writes for PEN Atlas on the importance of defining a vocabulary of atrocity
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Bosnian writer Alma Lazarevska ruminates on the events that triggered the First World War
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What’s the story behind the romance and propaganda surrounding Tibet?
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