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Katherine Leung reviews the debut novel by Georgian director and filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili and is overcome by sadness as she finishes the last pages of a powerful and moving story set in a [...]

"Armchair historians rejoice. Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II by Roger Moorhouse is the book you didn’t know you were waiting for." Book review by Katherine Leung.

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

"The author’s passion for music and culture is enough for the novel to deliver a fascinating portrait of Kazak culture and a definitive record of the words between the music".

Alexandra Kollontai was one of the earlier Bolsheviks, joining the party already in 1915 and as one of the few Old Bolsheviks to survive Stalin’s purges, she was a writer not only of political [...]

Have you ever read a book that was so good you couldn’t put it down? What about an academic text? That’s how I felt about Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence by Shoshana [...]

Artem Chekh is everywhere these days. From the lecture circuit at prestigious universities in the west to topping best-seller charts all over Eastern Europe, this writer-turned-soldier has a [...]

The first and only novel of Andrzej Bursa, Killing Auntie tells the absurd story of a character who is all too familiar to a young reader (until the parricide) – he is at the encore of [...]

The Great Nijinsky is a tragic tale of one of the greatest dancers of the early 20th century. Vaslav Nijinsky was a Polish dancer and choreographer whose works and legacy far overshadow his short [...]

Conspiracy Culture: Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination by Keith Livers is part of a recent cast of plucky new texts that blur the boundaries between academia and popular culture [...]