Andrey Kurkov reports on the latest news from Ukraine,
Read More'You must keep feeding the lake'
Michelle Bailat-Jones writes for PEN Atlas about Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, a contemporary of Robert Walser
Read More‘You must keep feeding the lake’
Michelle Bailat-Jones writes for PEN Atlas about Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, a contemporary of Robert Walser
Read More'While the Gods Were Sleeping'
To commemorate the centenary of The Great War, PEN Atlas takes us to Belgium
Read More‘While the Gods Were Sleeping’
To commemorate the centenary of The Great War, PEN Atlas takes us to Belgium
Read MoreWhen my cat tried to have breakfast at Tiffany's
To celebrate International Cat Day, Lena Devani writes from Greece for PEN Atlas
Read MoreWhen my cat tried to have breakfast at Tiffany’s
To celebrate International Cat Day, Lena Devani writes from Greece for PEN Atlas
Read MoreHorror and words
Michel Laub, author of Diary of the Fall, writes for PEN Atlas on the importance of defining a vocabulary of atrocity
Read MoreThe shot at Sarajevo
Bosnian writer Alma Lazarevska ruminates on the events that triggered the First World War
Read MorePlaying Vietnamese
For PEN Atlas this week Mariusz Szczygieł writes about the strange case of a Vietnamese literary prodigy in the Czech Republic who proved that fact is stranger than fiction
Read MorePEN Atlas Q&A: Joël Dicker, author of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Joël Dicker about his literary and geographic inspirations, his method of plotting, and his novel in translation that has been a huge bestseller around the world
Read MorePEN Atlas Q&A: Joël Dicker, author of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
Tasja Dorkofikis talks to Joël Dicker about his literary and geographic inspirations, his method of plotting, and his novel in translation that has been a huge bestseller around the world
Read MoreKiev’s Militant Spring
Alexei Nikitin writes for PEN Atlas about the tense atmosphere in Kiev, where the café-goers listening to jazz and the remaining protesters on the Maidan barricades await further news from the east of the country
Read MoreFinding the sworn virgin
Elvira Dones takes PEN Atlas to the mountains of Albania, where the story of an ancient custom, ideas about gender, and the resilient women who subverted both, helped the author to find a connection back to her homeland
Read MoreWho invented the graphic novel?
Ahead of European Literature Night, and the forthcoming British Library exhibition on comics, Paul Gravett writes about the history of the term ‘graphic novel’
Read MoreThe Greatest Turkish Novel?
Kaya Genç discusses the cultural and literary legacy of Hamdi Tanpınar whose 1961 novel ‘The Time Regulation Institute’ was published this year as a Penguin Classic.
Read MorePEN Atlas Q&A: Otto Dov Kulka
PEN Atlas talks to Otto Dov Kulka, author of Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death
Read MorePEN Atlas Q&A: Otto Dov Kulka
PEN Atlas talks to Otto Dov Kulka, author of Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death
Read MoreOnce I Was a Dog
Jacek Hugo-Bader writes about the scavenging life of the journalist for this week’s PEN Atlas, and how living down and out in Moscow and Warsaw prepared him for his bicycle and Volvo journeys across Central Asia
Read MoreWorld War III: a dress rehearsal
In another exclusive dispatch from Ukraine, Andrey Kurkov describes the atmosphere of tension and surreality in Kiev and Crimea
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