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English, please / Literature

'Unde este autogară?' An American Lost in Maramureș

Mark Baker

We asked one of the authors of the latest Lonely Planet Romania guide to recount a local travel experience. He took us all the way to Maramureș.

English, please / Cinema

Pink for Girls, and Blue for Boys. Gender Role Lies We Were Told Growing up

Ioana Pelehatăi, Livia Coloji

What isn’t becoming of a lady? What’s inappropriate for a man to do? I asked artists, journalists, and other professionals about who lied to them when they were children.

English, please / Tot felul

Red

Adrian Cioflâncă

June 2017 marks 76 years since the Iași Pogrom. It started with rumors, but there was another less-known catalyst: the color red.

English, please / Literature

To Fall in Love with Anyone, Read This

Luiza Vasiliu

I talked to Daniel Jones, the editor of The New York Times “Modern Love” column, about the hidden connections between love and writing.

English, please / Visual arts

Drawing is Dancing: A Proposed Guide for Geta Brătescu

Daria Ghiu

A tour of Geta Brătescu’s art. The first woman artist with a solo exhibition at the Romanian Pavilion in Venice.

English, please / Festival

“I’m Not Fond of Nostalgia.” An Interview with Radu Jude

Luiza Vasiliu

I talked to film director Radu Jude about his latest movie „Țara moartă” (“The Dead Nation”). A documentary about a Romania we don’t wish to remember.

English, please / Festival

TIFF 2017. Alain Delon is Acting Up Again

Vlad Odobescu

The TIFF guest of honor doesn't smile too often - and he doesn't need to either.

English, please / Visual arts

People from the Future Learn How People from Bucharest Used to Live in the Present

Ionuț Dulămiță

In the year 2017, 40 years after the Great Digital Quake and eight centuries after abolishing borders, a exhibition on Earth illustrates how people used to live in Bucharest a full millennium ago.

English, please / Politics

Emmanuel Macron. The Loneliness of a President

Cristina Hermeziu

The French people elected an enfant terrible as their president. Emmanuel Macron is 39 and contributes plenty of atypical details towards the symbolic imaginary of the presidency.

English, please / Depression

When Your Cat is the Only Person Who Understands You

Luiza Vasiliu

Andreea Chirică has drawn depression, loneliness, and 30+ disillusionment in “Home Alone”, one of the best books made in Romania published last year.

English, please / Education

What Central European University Means for Free Education and Democracy

Andra Matzal

8 CEU graduates remind us why keeping political control away from this university is vital for the freedom of education and democracy.

English, please / Film

Half an Hour of Tom Hardy’s Life (and Mine, Too)

Luiza Vasiliu

I met one of my favorite actors in Stockholm. We talked Taboo, kids & parents, acting & storytelling, power & corruption.

English, please / Visual arts

Adrian Ghenie on 10th Avenue at 27th Street

Mara Dănilă

I went to Pace Gallery, to see the first solo exhibition of the Romanian painter in the past four years in New York.

English, please / Visual arts

“This Museum Shall Be a Barricade”

Vlad Odobescu

Instead of labels and displays, the Museum of the Romanian Peasant asks the visitor to seek and uncoil the meanings of objects on their own.

English, please / Film

Berlinale Diary #2: Romanians Are Coming

Ioana Pelehatăi

Călin Netzer returns to the Berlinale with the hotly anticipated love story "Ana, mon amour" - but is his follow-up to "Child's Pose" Golden Bear-worthy?

English, please / Film

Berlinale Diary #1: Survival Guide

Ioana Pelehatăi

How I kept cold, overwhelmed, and enthusiastic while watching movies at the 67th Berlinale Film Festival.

English, please / Arte vizuale

9 Artists Illustrate Protests in Romania

Scena9

We invited 9 illustrators to capture the spirit of the biggest protests in Romania after the Revolution in 1989.

English, please / Protest

#Resist: A Protester’s Kit

Ioana Pelehatăi

We asked journalists, mothers, NGO workers, corporate people, etc: What do I need to have on me, for a successful protest?

English, please / Protest

Why I Skipped Work and Joined the Protests

Mihai Mateaș

„Stay right there, Mișu. We’ll take care of your work today”

English, please / Film

Fantastic Mr. Fox’s Visit to Bucharest

Ioana Pelehatăi

The animator for Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” tells you how much detail work, artistry, and effort goes into stop motion animation.

English, please / Literature

“We’ll Be an Egg, with One Eye and One Finger”

Adi Bulboacă, Andra Matzal

I talked to writer Andrei Codrescu about poetry, the internet, silence and the American presidential campaign.

English, please / Arte vizuale

Bucharest at Night, with Adi Tudose

Adi Bulboacă

Come up and see another kind of Bucharest than the one you see every single day.

English, please / Stuff

Culture Questionnaire: Jacqui Banaszynski

Jacqui Banaszynski

Journalist Jacqui Banaszynski on Hillary Clinton, fishing in the mountains, and how to look at others.

English, please / Stuff

Culture Questionnaire: Jon Mooallem

Jon Mooallem

Journalist Jon Mooallem feels strongly about: Elton John, a marijuana cream, and a book on hijacking.