Reviews

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews Guram Odisharia's "The Cyclops Bomb," a vivid, vicious, and absurd novel about conflict in the Caucasus

Katherine Leung reviews the poetry collection "Breathing Technique" by Marija Knežević, translated from the Serbian by Sibelan Forrester

Katherine Leung reviews the poetry collection "For the Shrew" by Anna Glazova, which can speak to introverts everywhere

Marianna Jaśniak reviews "Pamfir," a deeply unsettling but rewarding film by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk that is both universal and inextricably Ukrainian

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "Sunny" ("Mziuri"), a Georgian documentary bringing notice to the hidden citizens of Georgia

Katherine Leung reviews Krystyna Dąbrowska's "Tideline," a collaborative poetry collection that highlights the the extraordinary in everyday life

Katherine Leung reviews "Paper-thin Skin," Aigerim Tazhi's second poetry volume reflecting on identity and the stability of nature

Katherine Leung reviews Anzhelina Polonskaya's poetry collection "To the Ashes," a lamentation of Russian authoritarianism

Maja Soomägi reviews "Museum of the Revolution," a symbolic film about those living on the margins of society, decades after the post-socialist utopian dream ended

Alexandra Kuenning reviews "Occasional Spies," a gripping and innovative documentary about a group of Palestinian Jews who volunteered to return to their countries of origin in Eastern Europe in [...]