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Giorgia Maurovich analyses Olga Tokarczuk's "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" as a strand of ecofeminist literature

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

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

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "A Life's Music," Andreï Makine's novella exploring music and the Soviet condition

Amanda Sonesson reviews Vladimir Lorchenkov's dark and humorous novel The Good Life Elsewhere.

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 [...]

"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".