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
‘Spin, world, spin, circus:’ two avant garde Ukrainian poems celebrating circus life
The Desire to Be a Rib: read 2 poems on womanhood by Maria Stepanova
The cult novel that defined Georgian independence 30 years ago
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
‘Instinct for catastrophe’: French writer Jakuta Alikavazovic on the ghosts of the Yugoslav war
Listen to Belarusian and American poetry readings live today
‘The women who bore me slept too long, so they could run:’ 2 feminist poems by Croatia’s Ivana Bodrožic
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
‘Our city froze’: rereading Kolau Nadiradze’s 1921 poem on Georgia’s lost golden age of independence
Cooking and conversation: join an online festival of Georgian literature
‘Loneliness is the poet’s friend:’ 6 new poems from Uzbek writers
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
‘Life in quotation marks’: two poems by Polish wordsmith Ewa Lipska
The name’s Ford, Alan Ford: how an Italian comic book spy became a Yugoslav hero
‘The best weapons against dreams’: 2 poems on Ceaușescu’s orphans
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