Imagining Yourself into Another Person, in Another World

In Conversation with Candy Gourlay, Danielle Jawando, Hiba Noor Khan and Alom Shaha.

—Interviews | Long reads

24 min read

Jacqueline Rose’s PEN Pinter Prize 2026 Speech

Delivered at the British Library.

—Long reads

14 min read

I Wish there Had Been Writers Like You Writing about Characters with Which My Children Could Have Identified

Jacob Ross and Ashley Thorpe in conversation with Heather Marks about intergenerational writing.

—Interviews | Long reads

31 min read

Peace: Max Porter’s 2026 PEN Lecture

English PEN’s annual PEN Lecture delivered by Max Porter on 29 April 2026.

—Long reads

29 min read

The Inaccurate Mirror: Leila Aboulela’s PEN Pinter Prize 2025 Speech

Leila Aboulela's PEN Pinter Prize 2025 speech.

—Long reads

11 min read

Respectable Writers and Useful Scenery

Kamila Shamsie's 2025 PEN Lecture.

—Long reads

14 min read

Naomi Klein: An Encomium to Arundhati Roy and Alaa Abd el‑Fattah

Naomi Klein's PEN Pinter Prize 2024 encomium.

—Long reads

12 min read

Lina Attalah’s Speech for Alaa Abd el-Fattah, 2024 PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage

Lina Attalah's PEN Pinter Prize 2024 speech.

—Long reads

9 min read

No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound that is Palestine: Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize 2024 Speech

Arundhati Roy's PEN Pinter Prize 2024 speech.

—Long reads

15 min read

You Are Now Holding the Embers With Your Bare Hands

Syrian writer Rosa Yassin Hassan on exile. Translated by Nawara Mahfoud.

—Essays | Long reads

34 min read

Bookpocalypse: AI and the Risks to Literature and Free Expression

Monica Ali's PEN H.G. Wells Lecture

—Long reads

26 min read

In the Midst of This, I Write

Michael Rosen's PEN Pinter Prize 2023 speech

—Long reads

17 min read

Prison Poems

Mahvash Sabet on how she got her poems out of Evin Prison with the bravery of the women of Iran

—Long reads

20 min read

Just Sayin’

Malorie Blackman's PEN Pinter Prize 2022 speech

—Long reads

15 min read

When a Country’s Soul Succumbs: Laws, Migration and Culture

The 2022 StAnza Lecture by Mona Arshi.

—Long reads

23 min read

Everywhere in Essex, They Are Building

Tim Burrows' long read on housing, the green belt, urban development and climate activism in Essex.

—Long reads

33 min read