An interview about sound as a form of care, about how nature can be saved step by step — with patience, gentleness, and attention — and about how we might learn to truly listen to the world around us, if we wake up early enough and let the birds do the talking.
A pro-life movement, supported by the US and funded by local money, is developing in Romania.
Put together by 16 Gen Z artists from Romania, with the support of 8 more experienced mentors, the contemporary art exhibition Brain Bloom (March 8, 2026 – April 10, 2026, Atelierele Malmaison, Bucharest) invites visitors to explore how identity is rewritten when memory transcends corporeal boundaries.
Far-right politicians tell them to go “home.” The European Union is also sending them back, but through centers in third countries outside the bloc. Meanwhile, in Romania and other EU countries, labor migrants from Asia (and beyond) struggle, often in vain, to work and live here legally. A young Indonesian who studied in Cluj wonders where and how they should actually “return.”
He's doing quite well, thank you very much. His interwar novel on the life of a young Jew was published in 2016 in the Modern Classics collection at Penguin.
Photographer Mihaela Noroc traveled in over 70 countries to show how diverse is the feminine beauty in the project “Atlas of beauty”. Her newest book, “Girls of the World: Portraits and Stories from Around the World”, is a gift for the ones curious to find out how girls live around the world.
For nearly a year, the streets of Tbilisi have been bringing together mothers and young people in the same fight: for a European and free Georgia. Behind bars, on barricades or through letters, the two generations have formed a larger family, united in resistance against an illiberal regime.
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.
For the past thirteen years, an eighth league football team has been bringing together Romanian migrants and pro-Brexit Brits.
A young woman from Kharkiv speaks about her daily life, the idea of leaving her mom behind and flee alone and the future relationship between Ukrainians and Russians.
In February 2018 I headed over the Atlantic to meet John Oliver. What I talked to him about, who’s the Brit who changed the way we watch the news and how we can (can we?) bring order to the chaos around us—find out next.
Cristi Puiu's latest movie has just opened in the 2016 edition of the International Film Festival. Check out how shooting went down and what strange events happened.
I know this sounds morbid, but I have long wanted to be in London for the end of this reign.
I talked to Daniel Jones, the editor of The New York Times “Modern Love” column, about the hidden connections between love and writing.
A Romanian journalist and a Ukrainian anthropologist compare and contrast notes on two different (yet at times strikingly similar) Ukraine Independence Day events in Romania's capital.
What does it mean to be part of the Romanian middle class ? A team of anthropologists seeking answers.
We spoke to a member of the Russian Pirate Party about the country's president, the war, and (dis)information on the internet
A young journalist accompanies the Ukrainian military on a war tour on the eastern front, in Avdiivka, the town that the Russians have been struggling to capture for months.
How I kept cold, overwhelmed, and enthusiastic while watching movies at the 67th Berlinale Film Festival.
We asked journalists, mothers, NGO workers, corporate people, etc: What do I need to have on me, for a successful protest?
What motivated Romanian photographer Horia Manolache to capture the homeless people of San Francisco? What does it mean to be successful?
Bucharest Housing Stories explains the business of living in the capital, from the ghetto to luxury villas, via documentaries and anthropological research.
Journalist Jacqui Banaszynski on Hillary Clinton, fishing in the mountains, and how to look at others.