From Manila to Naga City and Santa Monica – Philippine literature is as complex and fragmented as the country and its languages. And as is so often the case, literature and its authors know more about the past, present and future than the country itself

Panel discussion on Bikol literature, colonial history, language, identity and resistance – a multifaceted view of the past and present of Filipino culture

A poem from Egypt

A short story from Texaco La Tsiémé, Brazzaville

Three Syrian faces for one body

Thomas Kuhn, Cinema, and the AI Age of Revolutions

A Fairy Tale of the Diaspora

A true story from the Bavarian Alps, Germany

An excerpt from "Family". Translated from Vietnamese to English by Vũ Trọng Hiếu

A story from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

A Short Story from Syria

How do you put down roots when your voice is divided between two languages and your soul between two countries?

A Cameroonian story from Switzerland

A short story from Yemen

A story unfolding in the provincial region of Bicol in the Philippines. Translated from Filipino to English by Bernard Capinpin

There are roads that begin in books and end in life, although as a rule it is the other way around.