Super families
Families are different for those with superpowers. Sarah Shaffi explores the importance of the 'found family' trope in superhero and supervillain narratives.
PEN Transmissions
Articles
Editorial: (found) families
Home, Tarçın and my mother
"I try to hold on to what I remember, wondering where and what home is for me." Ege Dündar hasn't seen his home, his mother, and his beloved dog in three years. He is building a life guided by memories.
The otherness
Yan Ge cultivates multiple selves, some more terrifying than others.
Metamorphosis
Darker, longer, tougher, stronger
‘Not everyone should have one, but 2017 was my annus horribilis.’ Pınar Öğünç reflects on Turkey, political change, and Sansevierias.
Just words
‘Could feminism transform language? And could a transformed language transform reality in turn?’ Alia Trabucco Zerán reports on recent changes in Spanish-language feminism.
On male refractions
Male inadequacy and virtual mirages of aggression: Guy Gunaratne on terrorism, incels and the performance of violent masculinity
the fact of experiencing something or being affected by it because of being in a particular situation or place
Livia Franchini is stuck between two countries and languages, ‘back and forth between two distinct, self-sufficient identities of home’.
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.
Silence as communication: a conversation with Elias Khoury
Elias Khoury is back with My Name Is Adam, the story of a man who decides to investigate what happened in 1948 in Palestine in the city of Lydda where he was born.
The blind and the elephant: a conversation with Ahmed Saadawi and Jonathan Wright
We spoke to the author and translator of Frankenstein in Baghdad about the novel’s success, its religious elements and truth in storytelling.