Disturbing the Comfortable and Comforting the Disturbed

Andrzej Tichý writes on music and migrant experience

—Essays

6 min read

How Do I Reconcile these Irreconcilable Things?

For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Taqralik Partridge writes on Scotland, Canada, and language loss

—PEN Transmissions x British Museum x Edmund de Waal

10 min read

Liberating Languages: A Conversation with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Damian Le Bas and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

Three writers discuss language and power.

—Interviews

19 min read

Poetry’s Democracy: An Interview with Anthony Anaxagorou

Anthony Anaxagorou - poet, writer, publisher and educator - discusses spoken word after COVID-19, Cyprus, and poetry in the age of social media.

—Interviews

12 min read

This Library Is Not an Artwork: An Interview with Edmund de Waal

To open our series with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Edmund speaks to us about his library of exile

—PEN Transmissions x British Museum x Edmund de Waal

9 min read

This Is Not an Arthur Koestler Novel – This Is Turkey

Can Bahadır Yüce writes on Turkey's response to coronavirus, and calls for the release of at-risk political prisoners

—Essays

5 min read

That Is Where My Navel String Buried: An Interview with Ingrid Persaud

Ingrid Persaud discusses love, Trinidad, and home.

—Interviews

6 min read

Art Is a Tool for Thinking: An Interview with Olivia Laing

Olivia Laing discusses the power of art in an emergency, the role of bad art, and our current weather.

—Interviews

9 min read

Editorial: A Digital Salon

Interviews with writers who were due to appear at the 2020 London Book Fair.

—Digital Literary Salon

2 min read

A Hideous Kind of Tetris: Eley Williams in Conversation with Peggy Hughes

As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Eley Williams speaks to Peggy Hughes about dictionaries, constructing characters, and playing literary Tetris.

—Digital Literary Salon

13 min read

Interrogating Bodies: Irenosen Okojie in Conversation with Aki Schilz

As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Irenosen Okojie speaks to Aki Schilz about bodies, musicality, and placing black women at the centre.

—Digital Literary Salon

14 min read

The Darker Emotions of Being a Woman

As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Hazel Barkworth speaks to Hannah Trevarthen about summertime, the writing process, and ‘unlikeable’ women characters.

—Digital Literary Salon

9 min read