Journal
A space at Haneen for our editors' writing and thoughts, including podcasts, interviews, announcements, and notes.
FEATUREDANNOUNCEMENTS
Open Call for Issue 07: Thresholds and Crossings
We're now accepting submissions for our next issue. Deadline August 18.
READ →MontréalINTERVIEWS
In Conversation: Leïla Ferrand on the Cinema of Waiting
The critic on bus stops, long takes, half-empty cinemas on weekday afternoons, and why she thinks the best films are the ones that make you wait with them.
TriestePODCAST
Episode 3: Letters That Arrived Late
Essayist and former bookseller Ettore Castagnola on twenty years of marginalia, the letters he left for the next tenant, and why forwarded post always arrives a little late.
LyonEVENT
Low Tide at Six, Screened in Lyon
Leïla Ferrand showed Low Tide at Six in a community hall on the Croix-Rousse, with Hana Morrow over from Glasgow. Notes from the screening and from the conversation afterwards about tides, long takes and getting caught by the water.
BerlinFROM THE EDITORS
A Guest Editor's Notebook
Pages from the notebook the guest editor of Borrowed Rooms kept while putting the winter issue together, from the first reading to the night before it went online.
BrusselsINTERVIEWS
In Conversation: Noor Castellane on Ordinary Light
The photographer behind Rooms Without Walls and Light Switches of Strangers on medium-format film, never photographing faces, and the hour after lunch.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
New in the Film Archive: The Upstairs Room
Tamsin Adeyemi-Holt's short The Upstairs Room, about two sisters clearing their late aunt's flat, has joined our films archive.
KrakówEVENT
An Evening of Borrowed Rooms in Kraków
Aurelia Stanek and Mira Halloran read from Borrowed Rooms in an upstairs room in Podgórze in August. A short account of the evening, the questions afterwards and one key that was never returned.
GlasgowPODCAST
Episode 2: The Long Take
Filmmaker Hana Morrow and critic Leïla Ferrand on the long take, on filming a year of tides, and on the difference between a shot that is slow and a shot that is patient.
KrakówFROM THE EDITORS
Borrowed Rooms, Six Months On
The guest editor of our winter issue looks back at Borrowed Rooms half a year after it appeared, and at the letters, photographs and keys that readers sent in response.
PortoINTERVIEWS
In Conversation: Joaquim Brandeiro on Endings
The author of The Landlady's Radio on twelve years on a hotel night desk, writing in two languages, and why he always knows the last line of a story before the first.
CopenhagenPODCAST
Episode 1: Kitchens and Commas
Poet and translator Mira Halloran talks with Kasper Nyholm about writing poems in two languages, the kitchens she has lived in, and why a comma can be harder to translate than a word.
LondonANNOUNCEMENTS
Welcome to Haneen
An introduction to the journal.
BeirutDISPATCH
Dispatch from Beirut — Notes on the Mediterranean
From a city that spills into the sea, notes on salt air and memory, on the particular gold of afternoon light over the Mediterranean, and the way Beirut holds its contradictions like water holds the sky.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Borrowed Rooms, Our Winter Issue, Is Out
Issue V, Borrowed Rooms, guest edited by Aurelia Stanek, is online today, with six pieces of writing and one film about tenancy, inheritance and the places that hold us for a while.