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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Editorial: (found) families
In this issue of PEN Transmissions, we explore different types of family, different ways of building community.
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Metamorphosis
You may think of Kafka; you may think of Ovid; you may think of Transformers, of cars turning into terrifying robots.
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Editorial: hidden things
As the days are getting shorter, we investigate things that are tucked away in dark corners of the brain – or the national consciousness.
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Editorial: on sport
Sport is emblematic of what goes on in society as a whole. In this issue of PEN Transmissions, we’ve looked at it as a method of inclusion – and exclusion. As a method of belonging as well as of extreme alienation.
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Editorial: nature and its absence
What do you think about when you think about nature? Weeds? Mountains? The sea? Do you think about its absence, or perceived absence, in cities? Or do you ponder human nature?
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