The Prince of Wales last month chose a book about rural Romania, Along the Enchanted Way, as one of five favourites featured by his wife the Duchess of Cornwall’s...
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With Polish-Belarusian relations at their lowest ebb in decades, rereading a 2015 novel by Katarzyna Bonda, a Polish writer of Belarusian origin, is revealing. Polish...
Polish writer Jakub Żulczyk could face up to three years in prison for calling the country’s president Andrzej Duda a “moron” in a Facebook post. But...
A new book is challenging the idea that queerness in Serbia is a foreign concept, imposed on a traditional society by outsiders. Emerging Europe speaks to its author...
Polish journalist David Warszawski takes a critical look at Emerging Europe’s Jo Harper’s new book, Our Man in Warszawa: How the West Misread Poland. Experts...
Polish writer, columnist and author Grażyna Plebanek speaks to Emerging Europe about her new books, both of which touch on very salient issues in the European collective...
Emerging Europe’s Jo Harper has lived in Poland for more than 20 years. His latest book, Our Man in Warszawa, challenges some accepted thinking in the West about...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
The Romanian Ion Pacepa, the highest-ranking spy chief ever to defect from a Warsaw Pact country to the United States, died on February 14 at the age of 92. Credited by...
Best known as the author of Solaris, Stanisław Lem has been largely forgotten outside of his native Poland. The Year of Lem – which celebrates the centenary of his...
Almost 40 years since it was published, there is no more faithful description of communist-era Central and Eastern Europe than Malcolm Bradbury’s brilliant Rates...
Two of Poland’s best-loved cartoon characters, Kajko i Kokosz, are getting their own show. Animation lovers will soon get a new treat courtesy of Netflix, when the...
