Review

By analysing two classic Yugoslavian movies, Natalija Stepanović examines images of the Roma community in European culture.

Louis Train review Rock, Paper, Scissors: "a master-class in noticing."

What does it take to succeed in Russia? Wits, talent, and wiliness – or so claims Joshua Yaffah, the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia. [...]

Micah White is not a household name, but his influence as a writer and activist in the past decade has been extraordinary. In 2011, he called on his readers and followers to “flood into lower [...]

Louis Train reviews Pravda Ha Ha by Rory MacLean: "an interesting travelogue and a badly under-researched political text".

Louis Train reviews The New Battle for the Atlantic by Magnus Nordenman.

Louis Train reviews the cookbook Supra: A Feast of Georgian Cooking by Tiko Tuskadze.

Louis Train reviews Evgeny Grishkovets's novel The Hemingway Game.

Amanda Sonesson reviews Sergei Lebedev's latest novel, The Goose Fritz, a story about "how the difference between life and death can lie in the specific order of a bunch of letters."

In Homes Away from Home: Jewish Belonging in Twentieth-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg (Stanford University Press), Sarah Wobick-Segev compares the experiences of the Jewish populations [...]