Marina Tsvetaeva: where to start with her literature
             
         
        
     
 
        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        The books that defined David Bowie’s love of Eastern Europe
                     
                 
            
         
     
    
         
     
 
                                            
                    
                                                    
                                
                                    
                                                                                    
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Lines of resistance: Kazakhstan’s poets face the aftermath of protest 
                     
                 
            
         
     
                                                                                    
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        ‘To have power you need guts:’ writer-in-exile Ak Welsapar on resistance in Turkmenistan
                     
                 
            
         
     
                                                                                    
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        ‘I had the courage to work at the very root of evil:’ 3 poems by Romanian poet Mariana Marin
                     
                 
            
         
     
                                                                             
                                 
                             
                                            
                
             
         
        
        
        
        
            
                
                
                    
                
                
                    
                
                
                    
                                                    
    
        
    
            
            
	
    
        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        What to read in 2022: 10 books from Eastern Europe to embrace the world more closely
                     
                 
            
         
     
        
    
        
            
            
                ‘No enemies, only survivors:’ Bosnia’s star writer, Faruk Šehić, on rivers, war and a borderless world
             
         
        
     
 
    
         
     
 
                                            
                    
                                                    
                                
                                    
                                                                                    
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        ‘Feelings can occupy the resistance:’ 2 Latvian poems by Ligija Purinaša and Katrīna Rudzīte
                     
                 
            
         
     
                                                                                    
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk — ambitious, daring, encyclopaedic
                     
                 
            
         
     
                                                                                    
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        ‘The sun rises like a knife:’ 2 poems by Latvian poet Agnese Rutkēviča
                     
                 
            
         
     
                                                                             
                                 
                             
                                            
                
             
         
        
        
        
        
            
                
                
                    
                
                
                    
                
                
                    
                                                    
    
        
    
            
            
	
    
        
    
        
            
            
                Letter from Chernivtsi: Ukraine’s ultimate literary capital 
             
         
        
     
 
        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Learning Russian: The Calvert Journal’s ultimate cultural guide
                     
                 
            
         
     
    
         
     
 
                                            
                    
                                                    
                                
                                    
                                                                                    
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Olga Tokarczuk: how I wrote The Books of Jacob
                     
                 
            
         
     
                                                                                    
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Reclaiming the legacy of Anna Bunina, Russia’s first woman poet
                     
                 
            
         
     
                                                                                    
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Chekhov on screen: 6 unmissable film adaptations 
                     
                 
            
         
     
                                                                             
                                 
                             
                                            
                
             
         
        
        
        
        
            
                
                
                    
                
                
                    
                
                
                    
                                                    
    
        
    
            
            
	
    
        
    
        
            
                    
                        
	
                    
                    
                        9 radical Polish books to add to your reading list
                     
                 
            
         
     
        
    
        
            
                
	
            
            
                ‘My heart stood still in a distant motel:’ 6 contemporary Polish poems
             
         
        
     
 
    
         
     
 
                                            
                    
                                                    
                                
                                    
                                                                                    
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        ‘Here you can listen to the sound of Wi-Fi:’ 2 poems by Latvian poet Elvira Bloma
                     
                 
            
         
     
                                                                                    
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Witty and frank: Wislawa Szymborska’s book How to Start Writing (and When to Stop) | Calvert Reads
                     
                 
            
         
     
                                                                                    
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Miroslav Krleža: where to start with Croatia’s most famous writer