New East Digital Archive

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From hinterland to heartland: 3 recipes from Central Asia

From hinterland to heartland: 3 recipes from Central Asia

Peaks and waterfalls: roam the beating heart of Bosnia and discover the country anew

Peaks and waterfalls: roam the beating heart of Bosnia and discover the country anew

Lines of resistance: Kazakhstan’s poets face the aftermath of protest

Lines of resistance: Kazakhstan’s poets face the aftermath of protest

‘I had the courage to work at the very root of evil:’ 3 poems by Romanian poet Mariana Marin

‘I had the courage to work at the very root of evil:’ 3 poems by Romanian poet Mariana Marin

‘Feelings can occupy the resistance:' 2 Latvian poems by Ligija Purinaša and Katrīna Rudzīte

‘Feelings can occupy the resistance:’ 2 Latvian poems by Ligija Purinaša and Katrīna Rudzīte

Godless Utopia: how the Soviet Union launched its war against religion

Godless Utopia: how the Soviet Union launched its war against religion

See Central Asia’s unique Soviet architecture in all its brutal glory

See Central Asia’s unique Soviet architecture in all its brutal glory

'I didn’t think it was my fault, but thanks:' feminist poetry from Romania by Ileana Negrea and Cătălina Stanislav

‘I didn’t think it was my fault, but thanks:’ feminist poetry from Romania by Ileana Negrea and Cătălina Stanislav

‘The sun rises like a knife:’ 2 poems by Latvian poet Agnese Rutkēviča

‘The sun rises like a knife:’ 2 poems by Latvian poet Agnese Rutkēviča

Olga Tokarczuk: how I wrote The Books of Jacob

Olga Tokarczuk: how I wrote The Books of Jacob

Salt & Time: 4 delicious recipes from a modern Russian kitchen

Salt & Time: 4 delicious recipes from a modern Russian kitchen

Joanna Lillis enters the world of Kazakh ‘returnees’ in an extract from her new book

Joanna Lillis enters the world of Kazakh ‘returnees’ in an extract from her new book

‘Here you can listen to the sound of Wi-Fi:’ 2 poems by Latvian poet Elvira Bloma

‘Here you can listen to the sound of Wi-Fi:’ 2 poems by Latvian poet Elvira Bloma

’I come to see birth as a shift:‘ 2 poems by Georgian artist Karlo Kacharava

’I come to see birth as a shift:‘ 2 poems by Georgian artist Karlo Kacharava

‘The non-digital memory of snow:’ 2 poems by Georgian poet Nene Giorgadze

‘The non-digital memory of snow:’ 2 poems by Georgian poet Nene Giorgadze

Exploring the true meaning of Spomeniks, Yugoslavia’s modernist war memorials

Exploring the true meaning of Spomeniks, Yugoslavia’s modernist war memorials

Kolyma Stories: read Varlam Shalamov’s brutally moving fragments of life in Siberia’s gulags

Kolyma Stories: read Varlam Shalamov’s brutally moving fragments of life in Siberia’s gulags

‘History crams a lesson down your throat:’ a thunderous poem on wartime by Russian poet Polina Barskova

‘History crams a lesson down your throat:’ a thunderous poem on wartime by Russian poet Polina Barskova

‘I don’t want my ovaries:’ 3 poems on child-freedom by Romanian poet Miruna Vlada

‘I don’t want my ovaries:’ 3 poems on child-freedom by Romanian poet Miruna Vlada

‘We became White Others:’ 3 migration poems by Slovenian writer Nika Mahnič

‘We became White Others:’ 3 migration poems by Slovenian writer Nika Mahnič