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Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. His journeys take him from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine. By car, train, bus, ferry. To small towns and villages with unfamiliar-sounding yet strangely evocative names. "The heart of my Europe," Stasiuk tells us, "beats in Sokolow, Podlaski, and in Husi, not in Vienna." Where did Moldova end and Transylvania begin, he wonders as he...
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Once Upon a Time in Ukraine is about a time about 35 years ago during the Glasnost years under Mikhail Gorbachev when the Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union. I went there on a citizen diplomacy trip in 1989, and I took several hundred photos in Kiev. The book features a portfolio of over 200 photos, a chapter I wrote about visiting the Ukraine from Before the Russian Revolution, and a traditional folktale, The Lord of the Crows. I was especially...
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36 years after the Chernobyl disaster, war has again embattled Ukraine. However, this time, unlike in 1986, the enemy is able to be seen and is not invisible. Russia is trying to take Ukraine and rebuild the Iron Curtain.
We will not let them.
I have known Evgeny for some time, we met via our connection with Chornobyl, and have spoken periodically ever since.
He showed me his diaries some time ago, and I had an idea to translate them to English,...
5) Zagreb Noir
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Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Featuring brand-new stories translated from Croatian by: Ivan Vidic, Josip Novakovich, Andrea Žigic-Dolenec, Robert Perišic, Mima Simic, Pero Kavesic, Nada Gašic, Zoran Pilic, Ružica Gašperov, Darko Milošic, Nora Verde, Ivan Sršen, Neven Ušumovic,...
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Just like it was taken for granted that houses could be abandoned and slowly decay, so it was taken for granted that people died in prisons, and that it was possible that no-one would really ever know the cause of death. This is the nature of totalitarianism. In 1993-94 Sigrid Rausing completed her anthropological fieldwork on the peninsula of Noarootsi, a former Soviet border protection zone in Estonia. Abandoned watchtowers dotted the coastline,...
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A vivid, contemporary travelogue by Fred A. Reed. From Bosnian actuality to Macedonian potentiality, Reed's travels in this region lead him to encounter a landscape inscribed with a shocking testimony: ethno-racialist aspirations remain the only coin in which peoples feel they can express their belonging, their social solidarity – the only credible alternative to the blight of free market globalism.
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During Europe's 2015 refugee crisis, more than a hundred thousand asylum seekers from the western Balkans sought refuge in Germany. This was nothing new, however. Immigrants from the Balkans have streamed into West Germany in massive numbers since the end of the Second World War. In fact, Yugoslavs became the country's second largest immigrant group. Yet their impact has received little critical attention until now.
Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav...
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