Nothing Is Real, Everything Is Real: An Interview with Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja
Michelle Steinbeck and Jen Calleja on fascism, femicide, and ghosts.
revolution
revolution – PEN Transmissions
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.
The Wolf No Longer Lives in the Dark Hallway
Magdalena Blažević on the massacre of Kiseljak.
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.
The Mud of Old Damascus Became My Mud: A Conversation with Issam Kourbaj
Issam Kourbaj on found art, the imagery of boats, and urgent archives.
Mostar’s Sniper Tower
Tayiba Sulaiman on memorialisation.
You Are Now Holding the Embers With Your Bare Hands
Syrian writer Rosa Yassin Hassan on exile. Translated by Nawara Mahfoud.
Searches: An Interview with Daniel Loedel
Daniel Loedel on ghost stories, love stories, and searches after the 70s Argentine dictatorship.
The Third One Might Not Take as Long: An Interview with Shehan Karunatilaka
Shehan Karunatilaka on language, living history, labour and luck.
I Do Not Want You to Escape the Real World
Yara Rodrigues Fowler on material as a part of reading, the making of zines, and writing there are more things.
How to Quarantine a Revolution
Lebanese writer and actress Dima Mikhayel Matta writes on quarantine, revolution, and being queer in Beirut.
Being both – a very personal revolution
Jan Carson reflects on being Northern Irish in the age of Brexit.
A new life
Theodora Sarah Abigail (Ebi) reflects on how motherhood has upended her life.
Blood on its hands: a conversation with Robert Menasse
Austrian writer Robert Menasse’s The Capital (translated from German by Jamie Bulloch) has been called ‘the first EU novel’. We talked to him about political writing and his belief in the EU as a transnational project.
No time for arrogance: a conversation with Ece Temelkuran
Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish writer now based in Zagreb. We caught up with her during her book tour to talk about politics, the marketplace of ideas, and how writers in exile are victimised.
Editorial: revolution
As the UK makes its way through the interminable Brexit process, it's time for an issue on the radical political and personal changes that we see going on around us, and within us.
Translation, Revolution, and Pedagogy
Following her appearance at the Literary Translation Centre for London Book Fair 2013, Samia Mehrez writes about working collaboratively on the book Translating Egypt’s Revolution: The Language of Tahrir, which uses multiple perspectives to translate the linguistic and cultural meanings of the momentous events in her country
Past Events Disperse like Smoke
PEN Atlas contributor Gregor Benton looks at revolution, resistance and the Beijing University literature class that harboured three of China's best-known intellectual and political adversaries, in light of his forthcoming translation of Mei Zhi's prison memoirs F: Hu Feng's Prison Years.
