Shen Yang speaks to Nicky Harman about the One Child policy, “excess-birth daughters”, and her memoir, More Than One Child.
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Delhi’s Educational Underbelly
Anandi Mishra on Mukherjee Nagar and her journey to writing.
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In All Its Forms: A Conversation with Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo on ghost stories, love stories, Trinidad, and grief.
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Something Shadowless, Like You: Nedim Türfent Writes Back to Ai Weiwei from Prison
Kurdish poet and journalist Nedim Türfent responds to Ai Weiwei’s postcard.
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My Character, My Pseudonym, and Me
Fatima Daas on names. Translated by Lara Vergnaud.
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All My Languages
Ariel Saramandi on Mauritius, identity, and the languages in which she writes, thinks and dreams.
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Dwelling in and ‘Writing’ the City
Daniela Hodrová on the city. Translated by Elena Sokol.
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No Memories, Except Memories of a Memory
Sascha A. Akhtar on the literature of South Asia, and young people translating Urdu poetry.
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The Epoch of Human Shame: An Interview with Samar Yazbek
Samar Yazbek on conflict, imagination and literature in Syria. Translated by Leri Price.
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The Threat of the Mob: An Interview with Anuradha Roy
Anuradha Roy on artists facing threat, publishing in India, and literary dogs.
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The Mountbatten Materials: Censoring an Archive
Andrew Lownie on making the Mountbatten diaries and letters public, and the importance of writers’ access to archives.
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Listening to the Flesh: For Tsitsi Dangarembga
Panashe Chigumadzi on Tsitsi Dangarembga, commissioned to celebrate Dangarembga winning the 2021 PEN Pinter Prize.
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Everyone’s In, Everyone’s Out: A Conversation with Tice Cin
Tice Cin on North London, North Cyprus, and sensitivity reads.
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Translating Simone de Beauvoir
Lauren Elkin on translating de Beauvoir’s newly discovered novel The Inseparables.
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At the Foot of the Volcano: Charif Majdalani in Conversation with Ben East
French-Lebanese writer Charif Madjalani in conversation with journalist Ben East.
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He Can Hardly Even Be Approached: On Saadat Hasan Manto
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri on Saadat Hasan
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The Great Homeless of Literature
Selahattin Demirtaş on ‘home’, state-sanctioned writing, and what makes literature literature. Translated by Kate Ferguson.
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Everywhere in Essex, They Are Building
Tim Burrows’ long read on housing, the green belt, urban development and climate activism in Essex.
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Journalation
Anna Aslanyan on the perils of translating news.
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Mario Levrero in Conversation with Mario Levrero
An imaginary interview with Mario Levrero and Mario Levrero, translated and introduced by Annie McDermott.
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