Review
Joy beneath the dullness of repression
Antoni Libera’s 'Madame' follows a young man’s fascination with his French teacher while exploring youth, love, art and everyday life in communist Poland
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Interview
‘Vladimir Putin is a salesman of...
Acclaimed Russian writer in exile Sergei Lebedev on Putin, the war in Ukraine, and how the Kremlin uses fear to exert control over Europe
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Feature
The art of leaving things out
Gerbrand Bakker’s fiction is defined by minimalism, eerie silence, and lonely characters searching for a way out of their lives
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Review
Truth is a book none of us has yet read
The autobiography of the great contemporary theologian Tomáš Halík is, above all, beautifully written - slightly ironic...
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Review
A rich tapestry of memory and time
In Miljenko Jergović’s '1983: Novelistic Maneuvers', a single year marks the boundary between innocence and a world that would vanish forever
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