When Utopia Becomes Tangible
Jen Calleja discusses practical responses to sexual harassment and assault in (literary) spaces, and how utopian hope can inspire and inform tactics for real change.
Past futures
Past futures – PEN Transmissions
Editorial: past futures
Moth Eyes
Ho Sok Fong imagines the future in a country where houses have warped into funnels, the horizon has tilted, and talking openly about what is happening has become taboo.
Faces Afraid of the Mirror
Zehra Doğan imagines the future: it is 3219 and art is a crime. Mirrors are banned. States who provide welfare to their citizens are brought before the European Court of Human Rights. And a country that imprisons its artists makes more and more money from tourists...
Living History: a Conversation with Kapka Kassabova
Kapka Kassabova explores the intersection between past, present and future in her work, and in particular how ancestral legacies and ideologies linger on. We spoke to her about the Balkans, belonging and how to avoid clichés.