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Often considered one of the best films produced in Czechoslovakia, The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol, 1969) is an impeccable example of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Darkly surreal, it portrays how [...]

Marco Siragusa looks at the history of Zlarin, a Croatian island famed for its red coral, but which holds a dark past

Xandie Kuenning reviews "A Crime in the Family," a memoir from Sacha Batthyány about discovering the dark side of one's family history

In February this year, before Covid put a stop on travel, I went to Budapest for a field trip  focusing on monuments and memory. Present in most street names and squares, I was amazed by the [...]

Raz Segal’s Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence 1914-1945 draws light to an under-researched tragedy and contextualizes the violence committed in Europe against [...]

– January 7th: Poland’s new year started big, with a controversy over the salary of one of the directors of the National Bank of Poland (NBP). An article in Gazeta Wyborcza, published at [...]