Leaping Seasons
Hongyu Jasmine Zhu on precious memories with her mother.
memory
memory – PEN Transmissions
Knowing Is a Kind of Pain: An Interview with Vaddey Ratner
Vaddey Ratner on memory, narrative history, and storytelling as a means of survival.
Coffee Corner
Bushra al-Maqtari on how Sana’a, Yemen, has changed. Translated by Sawad Hussain.
This Is Not My Story to Tell
Hajera Khaja on telling her friend's story.
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.
Past and Future Death and Art
AJ Layla on legacy and creative instinct.
Mostar’s Sniper Tower
Tayiba Sulaiman on memorialisation.
Shouldering the Boat
Sema Kaygusuz on language, water and renewal. Translated by Nicholas Glastonbury.
This Intangible Thing Called Storytelling
Mariam Jallow on the folklore, fear, and storytelling.
When You Are Stripped of All Else, You Will Need Poetry
lisa minerva luxx on poetry, memory, and breathing.
Our Tongues Were Forked Along Lines of Migration
Janika Oza on language and migration.
I Did Not Make That Decision Out of Bravery
Awet Fissehaye responds to the proposed 'Illegal Migration Bill'.
Searches: An Interview with Daniel Loedel
Daniel Loedel on ghost stories, love stories, and searches after the 70s Argentine dictatorship.
A Piece of Floating Coral: An Interview with Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Yassmin Abdel-Magied on identity and growing as a writer.
Telling Their Story As Truthfully As Possible: A Conversation with Ann-Helén Laestadius
Ann-Helén Laestadius on her latest novel Stolen, and the Sámi community.
The Third One Might Not Take as Long: An Interview with Shehan Karunatilaka
Shehan Karunatilaka on language, living history, labour and luck.
Remembering Partition
For our series on exile with the British Museum and Edmund de Waal, Kavita Puri writes on partition, memory and exile.