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
‘The best weapons against dreams’: 2 poems on Ceaușescu’s orphans
‘Home is our pocket with a hole:’ émigré writer Yelena Moskovich on the problem of homecoming
‘How far away love is’: 3 poems from one family of Czech poets
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
‘I’m not nice anymore’: meet the author behind North Macedonia’s #MeToo movement
Feminist poetry, migration tales and satire: the 10 best Eastern European books of 2020
6 contemporary Romanian poems reflect on the little things that give meaning to our lives
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
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
Young in the 90s: in her debut novel, director Nana Ekvtimishvili explores a decade most Georgians want to forget
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
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
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