In Egypt, the Drying Up of Dissent

By Basma Abdel Aziz, translated from the Arabic by Henry Peck May 7, 2018

Recounting the past of the Eastern Desert is my only refuge given the dire constraints of the present.

Paul Bowles & the Music of Morocco

By Henry Peck December 23, 2016

The writer’s archive of traditional Moroccan music finds a new outlet.

By Henry Peck September 22, 2016

In a war that remains unfinished, two Syrian-British writers acknowledge and affirm those whose stories and lives may be lost in its course.

By Henry Peck May 26, 2016

Henry Peck interviews Fred Kaplan about the shadowy world of cyber war.

By Henry Peck August 3, 2015

The Welsh novelist on badger baiting, human resonance in the natural world, and why he holds his breath while writing.

By Henry Peck June 15, 2015

Boundaries of Taste: The Turner Prize-winning “transvestite potter” on the taste tribes of Britain.

By Henry Peck and Meara Sharma December 23, 2014

When a storm destroyed Dhanushkodi, the government ordered it emptied. Fifty years later, we meet the people who stayed.

By Henry Peck October 1, 2014

The privacy advocate and legal advisor to Edward Snowden on today’s surveillance empire.

By Henry Peck March 17, 2014

The “moonshine roots” musician on the magnetism of Southern music, learning to sing in church, and the timbre of the Tennessee landscape.