Culture

Katherine Leung review Slavoj Žižek's latest book Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World.

Elodie Phillips's interviews Piotrek Gawliński, who is behind the increasingly popular @lostfoundEurope Twitter account, inviting you to walk the streets of the golden era of Central European cities.

Katherine Leung review Karl D. Qualls' Stalin's Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951.

Katherine Leung review Sharon Hudgin's T-Bone Whacks and Caviar Snacks: Cooking with Two Texans in Siberia and the Russia Far East.

Moscow's and Saint-Petersburg's drag scenes are thriving. Meet Moscow based Haus of Tina. By Rebecca Shaw.

Katherine Leung review Andrei P. Tsygankov's The Dark Double.

In order to be a true anti-imperialist, you have to reject all forms of imperialism. Katherine Leung review Indefensible by Rohini Hensman.

Katherine Leungs explores Jewish Eastern European and Caucasian cooking traditions in a review of Leah Koeing's The Jewish Cookbook.

Who will win this year's Eurovision Song Contest?

Elodie Phillips digs through the archives of past Eurovision winners in an entertaining review of this bizarre and beautiful non-political political competition.