The pandemic increases the risk of slave exploitation for agricultural workers - Romanians and Bulgarians are the most exposed. We spoke to workers, activists and authorities across the UK to understand the real price of food.
People tired of the din of big city life go to live in an alternative community in Romania’s Apuseni Mountains. Alongside the quiet of meditation, they are served conspiracy theories.
Why do we close our eyes to the facts when we’re told a beautiful story about touring the world on foot, in traditional sandals?
When was the last time you reflected on how your imagination works?
How the Romanian state and I, together and in turn, botched the HPV vaccine.
A pro-life movement, supported by the US and funded by local money, is developing in Romania.
Bucharest Housing Stories explains the business of living in the capital, from the ghetto to luxury villas, via documentaries and anthropological research.
A Frenchman with a penchant for vampires invented a university and a gold medal, with which he tricked institutions, publications, and important intellectuals.
Do you know who Alexandru Potocean is? He’s one of the most respected young Romanian actors. We sat down for beers and I wrote his story.
Who is Brancusi? Why is he among us? When did his reception go from being strictly aesthetic to the emergence of a genuine cult? What did communists believe about Brancusi? What do you think?
I attended the first collective contemporary art exhibition about the Holocaust in Romania.
In Perugia, a town at the heart of Italy, a newsstand seemingly popped up out of nowhere to shake up the world.
A Russian journalist speaks about propaganda, media censorship and solidarity with Ukraine.
I procrastinate because I feel like I can’t start anything good when I am not the world’s happiest woman. Surely, I will be one tomorrow. Tomorrow, everyone will be happy, there will be no wars, and the articles will write themselves.
A discussion with an American artist settled in Romania, about his favorite sculptures in Bucharest, about the life he made here, but also about his book, written from the perspective of a fictional Romanian art historian.
Little was known about Adrian Ghenie until recently: along with Mihai Pop, he founded Plan B Gallery, famous for putting Cluj on the international art map with a new generation of artists
I tried to help an Afghan engineer get out of her country and I failed. However, I did manage to get her story across the border.
We spoke with actress Ilinca Manolache about the limits of theater and "Love Island", society and TikTok, misogyny and trivialized violence, but also about her role in Radu Jude's latest film, "Don't Expect Too Much From the End of the World".
The eye of the foreigner, used to seeing freshness where all you see is oozing and destitution, has already crept into several corners of Romania.
I have no clear ambitions in life, I am convinced that the idea of success is relative and that the formulas for happiness are narrow. Whence, however, the compulsive need for more and better, which grinds me down, but also exalts me? And what is its price?
We spoke with photojournalist Vadim Ghirda about good and evil, disillusionment and hope, beauty and fear. About journalism and its increasingly complicated relationship with the truth, about the unsung heroes who make the work of war correspondents possible. About the baggage of suffering he has amassed in the 34 years that he has spent working at the heart of conflicts all over the world.
I met in London with the team of "The Night Of", the new HBO series.
We spoke to a member of the Russian Pirate Party about the country's president, the war, and (dis)information on the internet
How to understand better the situation of the women in Romania nowadays from a book about the history of Wallachia written two centuries ago