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Suzanne Rademaker reviews Hanna Komar’s "When I'm Out of Here: Staying Human in a Dictator's Jail"- a powerful story of repression, solidarity and survival.

Mathieu Lemoine reviews Olga Shparaga’s “The Revolution Has a Female Face. The Case of Belarus", exploring the legacy of Belarus’s 2020 uprising.

Maya Ivanova explores how Zdravka Evtimova’s "Asylum for Men and Dogs" turns violence and inequality into a story of refusing to bow down.

Maya Ivanova reviews Narine Abgaryan’s "To Go On Living", revealing the human cost of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War beyond headlines and statistics.

Maya Ivanova reviews Anait Grigoryan’s “The Village on the Oredezh River” as a powerful portrayal of social breakdown in provincial Russia during the 1990s.

Maya Ivanova reviews “Echelon to Samarkand” Guzel Yakhina as a powerful novel that brings renewed attention to the Volga famine, a long-silenced catastrophe that devastated countless Tatar families.

Maya Ivanova explores how Zdravka Evtimova’s “Blood of a Mole” uses compassion and dark humour to reveal the hidden realities of contemporary Bulgaria.

Maya Ivanova examines how Rene Karabash's “She Who Remains” transforms the story of an Albanian sworn virgin into a powerful reflection on patriarchy, identity, queer experience and the [...]

Maya Ivanova reviews Banine’s "Days in the Caucasus", a book about the vanished world of oil-boom Baku before Soviet rule.

Maya Ivanova explores how Gulrukhsor Safieva’s “Mirror of the Day” helped shape modern Tajik identity through language, memory, poetry and political courage.