Romance on the edge of Europe
Gwen John’s competing passions; a sunny vision of Wales; Jules Verne’s Scotland; intergenerational trauma in Belfast.
Culture
Georgia’s unfinished European journey
Revisiting Georgia’s history of higher education offers a way of understanding both the country’s European aspirations and the obstacles that
‘To compose a sentence was to take a moral stance’
As a writer, Slavenka Drakulić sought to evoke the life of the single individual in a way that made empathy
‘Life exists to be described’
‘If we expected a better situation, more respect, greater equality – that did not happen’. With her concrete observations of
From punk rebellion to happy consumerism
From late-90s punk to ‘Happyism’, the trajectory of former The Flowers front-man Wowkie Zhang exposes a dialectic typical of China’s
Dispatch from Ukraine
When citizens are the targets of direct military action, humanity suffers alongside those under fire. First-hand insights of travelling to
Memory over ideology
An optimistic take on AI aesthetics; the destruction of Vilnius during the Soviet Union; the arrested development of Lithuanian urban