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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

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "The Funeral Party," Ludmila Ulitskaya's first full-length novel to be translated into English

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "Mud Sweeter Than Honey," an oral history of Communist Albania into the 1990s

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "American Fairy Tales," a semi-fictional account of Dato Turashvili's experiences in the United States

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "Estoril," a Serbian novel about spycraft, exile, and family in neutral Portugal during World War II

Baltics regional editor Maja Soomägi reviews "Border State," a fascinating and poetic read of a changing Europe in the 1990s

Jelena Lalatović takes a close look at the recent developments, growing success, and contradictions of female literature in the Balkans.