No Memories, Except Memories of a Memory
Sascha A. Akhtar on the literature of South Asia, and young people translating Urdu poetry.
Essays
Articles
The Mountbatten Materials: Censoring an Archive
Andrew Lownie on making the Mountbatten diaries and letters public, and the importance of writers' access to archives.
Listening to the Flesh: For Tsitsi Dangarembga
Panashe Chigumadzi on Tsitsi Dangarembga, commissioned to celebrate Dangarembga winning the 2021 PEN Pinter Prize.
Translating Simone de Beauvoir
Lauren Elkin on translating de Beauvoir's newly discovered novel The Inseparables.
He Can Hardly Even Be Approached: On Saadat Hasan Manto
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri on Saadat Hasan
The Great Homeless of Literature
Selahattin Demirtaş on 'home', state-sanctioned writing, and what makes literature literature. Translated by Kate Ferguson.
Journalation
Anna Aslanyan on the perils of translating news.
To Dearest, Cherished and Longed Amanuel
Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu writes to Amanuel Asrat on his 50th birthday. Translated by Issayas Beyene.
By Nanthikadal Lagoon, Our Dreams Lie Rusting in the Mud
Shash Trevett on the poetry of Nillanthan.
My Mother’s Land Is Over
Worapoj Panpong on family, land, and money. Translated from the Thai by Mui Poopoksakul
EROSION, A6: Notes on the Waikīkī Blackout Poetry Project
Noʻu Revilla, Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), on the power of ecopoetry
We Too Are the Trees
Karlo Mila on language, knowledge, and right relationships.
My Eraser is a Memory
Nayrouz Qarmout writes from Gaza
Three Years of Solitude
Suad Aldarra's commission for the 2021 Cúirt International Festival of Literature, part of the PEN x Common Currency residency.
Those Riding Shotgun
Nadine Anne Hura (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) on climate, making time, and making people listen.
Writers’ Contributions to the History of Ideas about Rural England and the Colonial Countryside
Corinne Fowler on how writers and writing explore the colonial histories of the English countryside.
Why We Choose not to See the Old
Dulce Maria Cardoso on ageing. Translated by Ángel Gurría-Quintana.
Once Again Our Democracy Is at Stake: Illustrating Orwell
Fido Nesti on adapting Nineteen Eighty-Four into a graphic novel in the shadow of Brazilian populism.