The Inaccurate Mirror: Leila Aboulela’s PEN Pinter Prize 2025 Speech
Leila Aboulela's PEN Pinter Prize 2025 speech.
PEN Transmissions
Articles
There Is Never One English
Deepa Rajagopalan on creating space at the centre.
Missing Persons and Missed Connections
Em Dial on archives and invitations of silence.
Shadow Histories: Writing What You Don’t Know
Christine Wu on reimagining family history.
Kurdishness: A Matter of Existence and Non-Existence
Nurcan Baysal on Kurdish language, culture and identity. Translated by Nazım Dikbas.
The Wolf No Longer Lives in the Dark Hallway
Magdalena Blažević on the massacre of Kiseljak.
Hip-Hop & the Apocalypse
Jordan Aitcheson-Labarr on viewing a turbulent world through Hip Hop
Respectable Writers and Useful Scenery
Kamila Shamsie's 2025 PEN Lecture.
Banana Scrambled Pancakes with Whole Milk on the Side on 13 June
Sana – a pseudonym – writes from Iran.
To Which Homeland Should I Send My Letter?
Kamran Sajid on Panjabi folk music
Ancient Magic vs. Modern Magic: Raphael Cormack in Conversation with Rana Haddad
Rana Haddad and Raphael Cormack on holy men, charlatans, and how 'East' and 'West' saw each other.
Postcards
On International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus, Nobel Laureate Ales Bialiatski on letters, solidarity, and compassion. Translated by Valzhyna Mort.