Maya Ivanova explores how Zdravka Evtimova’s "Asylum for Men and Dogs" turns violence and inequality into a story of refusing to bow down.

Maya Ivanova reviews Narine Abgaryan’s "To Go On Living", revealing the human cost of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War beyond headlines and statistics.

Maya Ivanova reviews Anait Grigoryan’s “The Village on the Oredezh River” as a powerful portrayal of social breakdown in provincial Russia during the 1990s.

Maya Ivanova reviews “Echelon to Samarkand” Guzel Yakhina as a powerful novel that brings renewed attention to the Volga famine, a long-silenced catastrophe that devastated [...]

Maya Ivanova shows how Anna Lazarova’s poetry reflects the loneliness and changing family life of post-1989 Bulgaria.

Diego Benning Wang reviews "Bride and Groom" by Alisa Ganieva - a book about marriage, corruption, radicalism, and constrained freedom in urban Dagestan.