Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning, Author at Lossi 36

A feminist depiction of Soviet womanhood: “Some Interviews on Personal Matters” at the Samizdat Festival of Central and Eastern European Film

September 10, 2023

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews the Soviet Georgian feminist classic "Some Interviews on Personal Matters"

“A human being without love has no chance of life”: “King Lear: How We Looked For Love During the War” at the Samizdat Festival of Central and Eastern European Film

September 10, 2023

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "King Lear: How We Looked For Love During the War," a noteworthy film about love and human resilience

“The people are my nation. If my nation is gone, no more Armenians live”: “Aurora’s Sunrise” at the Samizdat Festival of Central and Eastern European Film

September 10, 2023

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "Aurora's Sunrise," a partly-animated film delving into a lesser-known figure of the Armenian Genocide

“Going to Abkhazia is like stepping into a fairytale — it’s impossible”: Maradia Tsaava’s film “Water Has No Borders”

September 5, 2023

Xandie Kuenning reviews Maradia Tsaava's 2021 film "Water Has No Borders," a documentary more about the filmmaker than its ostensible topic

Poems of oppression and liberation: “I Set It Free: An Anthology of Georgian Women’s Contemporary Poetry”

August 22, 2023

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews the 2019 anthology "I Set It Free," a collection emphasising contemporary poetry by Georgian women

A snapshot of Russian emigrés in New York: Reviewing “The Funeral Party” by Ludmila Ulitskaya

August 11, 2023

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "The Funeral Party," Ludmila Ulitskaya's first full-length novel to be translated into English

Isolation, paranoia, and cruelty on a daily basis: “Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania” by Margo Rejmer

August 1, 2023

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "Mud Sweeter Than Honey," an oral history of Communist Albania into the 1990s

A meandering look at love, culture-shock, and anecdotal history: “American Fairy Tales” by Dato Turashvili

July 26, 2023

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "American Fairy Tales," a semi-fictional account of Dato Turashvili's experiences in the United States

The ins and outs of a hotel full of monarchs, spies, and refugees: “Estoril” by Dejan Tiago-Stanković

July 18, 2023

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "Estoril," a Serbian novel about spycraft, exile, and family in neutral Portugal during World War II

A meditation on death during Georgia’s violent 1990s: “The Pass of the Persecuted” by Guram Odisharia

June 23, 2023

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "The Pass of the Persecuted," Guram Odisharia's personal account of crossing the Sakeni-Chuberi mountain pass during the 1992–93 Georgian-Abkhazian conflict