Translating Emergencies
Sophie Lewis on translating Noémi Lefebvre.
Essays
Articles
Spicy’s Story
Omid Tofighian and Behrouz Boochani tell the story of Bangladeshi refugee Spicy – across borders, seas and prisons.
Working Masks
Kikuko Tsumura on making masks work. Translated by Polly Barton.
Memories of the Fires
El Salvador's Claudia Hernández on war, women, and burning. Translated by Julia Sanches.
For Uncle Milton
Robert Jones, Jr. on discovering he was not the only Black, queer member of his family.
For the Stories, or for the Visa Delays?
Nayrouz Qarmout writes about Edinburgh, Gaza, short stories, and packing her bag.
Why I Wrote ‘England Street’
Read Jay Bernard's 'England Street (Reggae fi Linton)', commissioned to celebrate Linton Kwesi Johnson winning the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize. Featuring a specially commissioned introduction to the poem from Jay.
A Dossier of Hate
Priyamavada Gopal writes on her experience of online hatred, and calls for an end to a politics of hate.
Translating Every Day: The Importance and Impossibility of Decolonising Translation
Kavita Bhanot writes on mother-tongue shame, translating across generations, and decolonising translation.
When an Hour Stretched into A Day
Tsitsi Dangarembga, shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, writes on demonstrating, writing, and being arrested.
Another Unknown Person Ringing at My Door: A Statement from Svetlana Alexievich
A statement from Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate and Chair of Belarusian PEN.
Hope in a Bottle of Honey
Kurdish writer Nurcan Baysal responds to a letter from Nedim Türfent.
Translating Fascisms
Alex Valente on translating fascism between Italy, the UK and the US.
Black Deaths Matter: About My Father
Patrice Lawrence writes about her father, Windrush, and death.
Storms
Barbadian speculative fiction writer Karen Lord writes before and after a storm.
Some Place to Call Home
Yvonne Battle-Felton on listening, fear, and home.
After Saartjie: The Persistence of Prejudice
Dzifa Benson writes on contemporary and historical perceptions of black women's bodies
Disturbing the Comfortable and Comforting the Disturbed
Andrzej Tichý writes on music and migrant experience