Memory, migrants, magic: 11 books to look forward to in 2021
A bookshop in every village: how the late Soviets animated Moldovan rural life with books
Fyodor Dostoevsky: where to start with his literature
Svetlana Alexievich’s next book is on ‘revolution with a woman’s face’ in Belarus
How a supernatural Slavic mafia set up home in the American Midwest
How one Bulgarian writer created a global mail order community of radical artists
Odesa’s literature museum is a radical tribute to the city’s multicultural, revolutionary history
Ágota Kristóf’s ‘The Notebook’ is a tale of twisted morality and survival during wartime | Calvert Reads
‘We yearn for a world tender enough to embrace us’: 4 Bosnian poems on life after war
‘A feminist in my own way:’ Romanian writer Magda Cârneci on her novel FEM
This new book captures the history and reality of the black experience in Russia and Europe
Joanna Lillis enters the world of Kazakh ‘returnees’ in an extract from her new book
Svetlana Alexievich’s Second Hand Time X-rays the transition from communism to capitalism | Calvert Reads
Anna Akhmatova: where to start with her literature
‘If I could afford to, I’d post myself to Berlin with DHL:’ 2 political Bosnian poems by Faruk Šehić
Tomorrow’s Tolstoy: publisher Yelena Shubina on the wait for a great novel about contemporary Russia
Kolyma Stories: read Varlam Shalamov’s brutally moving fragments of life in Siberia’s gulags
Two Jewish writers captured the spirit of interwar Romania. What can they teach us about the rise of fascism?
7 Eastern European authors win the 2021 European Prize for Literature
How the Russian president became China’s ultimate self-help muse
