A bookshop in every village: how the late Soviets animated Moldovan rural life with books
How one Bulgarian writer created a global mail order community of radical artists
6 contemporary Romanian poems reflect on the little things that give meaning to our lives
The Lost Soul: Olga Tokarczuk’s next work is an illustrated book about finding fulfilment for adults and children
‘… and somewhere everyday life turned into a miracle.’ 2 poems by Kazakh author Aigerim Tazhi
Odesa’s literature museum is a radical tribute to the city’s multicultural, revolutionary history
This new book captures the history and reality of the black experience in Russia and Europe
Young in the 90s: in her debut novel, director Nana Ekvtimishvili explores a decade most Georgians want to forget
Dynamic, reflective, provocative: 6 poems to discover contemporary Czech poetry
‘Warmth shifts moods’: 2 soothing Serbian poems on loss and longing for the chilly days ahead
Joanna Lillis enters the world of Kazakh ‘returnees’ in an extract from her new book
Tomorrow’s Tolstoy: publisher Yelena Shubina on the wait for a great novel about contemporary Russia
Join the first ever Romanian-British Literary Festival
Read Romania’s best contemporary writers in a special issue of literature magazine The Riveter
Bold and intimate: 2 poems by queer and feminist Russian poets
Kolyma Stories: read Varlam Shalamov’s brutally moving fragments of life in Siberia’s gulags
Element 174: lose yourself in this queer sci-fi from Bishkek
Her Word: fresh and entrancing Romanian video-poems by four women writers
6 Ukrainian poems that capture a bold moment in contemporary poetry
Part of a Bird: an end of summer poem by Romanian poet Nina Cassian
