How Marcell Jankovics’ psychedelic animation lights a path for artists in an age of rising authoritarianism
This new book captures the history and reality of the black experience in Russia and Europe
Osip Mandelstam’s ‘Black Earth’ reaps sweetness from the darkest Soviet years | Calvert Reads
Bygone Days, the first Uzbek novel, is a political love story set in the colonial past | Calvert Reads
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, or Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (and the Pandemic)
Human tragedies made into spectacle take centre stage in Jakub Piątek’s Prime Time
Inside Creaks, a video game world inspired by Czech Cubism
Vivid and richly detailed, ‘Catherine the Great and the Small’ explores a migrant’s fragmented identity
In Maria Reva’s Kafkaesque satire, puzzled occupants discover their Soviet tower block doesn’t exist
Timely and thought-provoking, this film reflects what it’s like to struggle with mental health and isolation
Armenia’s Narine Abgaryan weaves a story of transgenerational trauma amid the folds of fairytale prose
The Trap: Ludovic Bruckstein’s elegantly-observed novellas are a time capsule and warning about Romania’s lost multi-ethnic world
To The Lake: Kapka Kassabova’s book is a melancholic tale of boundaries and war in the Balkans
Can you ever truly know your mother? In the novel The Doll, Ismail Kadare thinks you can’t
