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Antonia Vlad reviews Faizah Muhammad’s The Art of Making a Forgotten Cup of Tea, a novel about memory, migration, and everyday rituals.

Jonas Heins reviews Karel Čapek’s "War with the Newts", a book about political folly exposed through a satirical tale of intelligent sea creatures.

Georgie Archer reviews Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's memoir "The Oak and the Calf", which chronicles his literary career and fight against Soviet-era repression.

Baltics editor Maja Soomägi reviews "Everything is Wonderful," Sigrid Rausing's book based on her anthropological fieldwork in Estonia

Giorgia Cacciotti reviews "La Russia che si ribella" — a book ideal for exploring the complexities of Russian society

Marianna Jaśniak starts off her series on Donbas literature with a review of Tamara Duda's emotional debut novel "Daughter"

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "When the Doves Disappeared," a bleak Estonian drama about a family broken apart by war and occupation

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "Red Star Over Hebrides," an exploration of the links between the Scottish isles and Eastern Europe

Maja Soomägi reviews "The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise," a concise examination of the role ethnicity played in the Soviet Union

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