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
‘Warmth shifts moods’: 2 soothing Serbian poems on loss and longing for the chilly days ahead
Join the first ever Romanian-British Literary Festival
Read Romania’s best contemporary writers in a special issue of literature magazine The Riveter
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
Bold and intimate: 2 poems by queer and feminist Russian poets
Her Word: fresh and entrancing Romanian video-poems by four women writers
6 Ukrainian poems that capture a bold moment in contemporary poetry
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
Part of a Bird: an end of summer poem by Romanian poet Nina Cassian
The Montenegrin political novel: dark thrillers, melodrama, and the decadence of the rich and the powerful
6 bittersweet Albanian poems on love and freedom
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
6 contemporary Georgian poems that embrace life
4 summer poems to make you feel free
8 Eastern European summer love novels to make your heart flutter
