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Serhiy Zhadan’s The Orphanage is a powerful novel on the experience of war in Ukraine | Calvert Reads

Serhiy Zhadan’s The Orphanage is a powerful novel on the experience of war in Ukraine | Calvert Reads

Witty and frank: Wislawa Szymborska’s book How to Start Writing (and When to Stop) | Calvert Reads

Witty and frank: Wislawa Szymborska’s book How to Start Writing (and When to Stop) | Calvert Reads

Coming alive with skiing: The Accident is an elegant interwar novel on winter love | Calvert Reads

Coming alive with skiing: The Accident is an elegant interwar novel on winter love | Calvert Reads

The rise and fall of urban communes during the Russian Revolution | Calvert Reads

The rise and fall of urban communes during the Russian Revolution | Calvert Reads

Nonconformist Ukrainian painter, Alexander Dubovik, stayed true to himself | Calvert Reads

Nonconformist Ukrainian painter, Alexander Dubovik, stayed true to himself | Calvert Reads

Dancing for Stalin: the harrowing story of a ballerina who survived the gulag | Calvert Reads

Dancing for Stalin: the harrowing story of a ballerina who survived the gulag | Calvert Reads

Be beguiled and bewitched by Dubravka Ugresic's novel Fox | Calvert Reads

Be beguiled and bewitched by Dubravka Ugresic’s novel Fox | Calvert Reads

The Union of Synchronised Swimmers by Cristina Sandu dives into the complexities of migration | Calvert Reads

The Union of Synchronised Swimmers by Cristina Sandu dives into the complexities of migration | Calvert Reads

Surrealist novel The Fleeting City takes down Armenia’s social taboos | Calvert Reads

Surrealist novel The Fleeting City takes down Armenia’s social taboos | Calvert Reads

Hamid Ismailov’s Manaschi is a magnetic novel about the bard-shamans at the heart of Kyrgyzstan’s myths | Calvert Reads

Hamid Ismailov’s Manaschi is a magnetic novel about the bard-shamans at the heart of Kyrgyzstan’s myths | Calvert Reads

Osip Mandelstam’s ‘Black Earth’ reaps sweetness from the darkest Soviet years | Calvert Reads

Osip Mandelstam’s ‘Black Earth’ reaps sweetness from the darkest Soviet years | Calvert Reads

Bygone Days, the first Uzbek novel, is a political love story set in the colonial past | Calvert Reads

Bygone Days, the first Uzbek novel, is a political love story set in the colonial past | Calvert Reads

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