It has become the motto of our age to say, ‘Oh I hate politics’ – without realising that that is the most political statement you can come up with.
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Editorial: revolution
As the UK makes its way through the interminable Brexit process, it’s time for an issue on the radical political and personal changes that we see going on around us, and within us.
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Normality is fiction: a conversation with Samanta Schweblin
I think fiction starts with something really unusual. We keep trying to be normal, day after day, but normality is a fiction. It is a space between you and me, but there is nobody who occupies that space.
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Permission to connect
Much of the world around us wants to pretend that it is not pulsing with carnality. Outside of sanctioned times and spaces, we are asked to pretend this energy doesn’t exist. In this way, we are being asked to stem the natural flow of dialogue with ourselves, isolating a central aspect of our being.
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Super families
Nowhere in fiction does the found family, or family of choice, exist in such abundance as it does in superhero narratives.
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Editorial: (found) families
In this issue of PEN Transmissions, we explore different types of family, different ways of building community.
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