English, please / Literature
A Brief Account of a Book Festival in Edinburgh
Cătălina Stanislav, Vlad Pojoga
Festival Report: Edinburgh International Book Festival, one of the biggest of its kind in the world.
Literature
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 / 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 / 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 / Literature
Culture Questionnaire: Tara Skurtu
Tara Skurtu
Poet and translator Tara Skurtu on what she's reading these days, the songs she likes, and what she sees out her window.
English, please / Literature
“We Built Rio de Janeiro on a Cemetery of Slaves”
Luiza Vasiliu
A writer is filming his Brasil.
English, please / Literature
Romanian Society Was Dissolute
Andra Matzal
How to understand better the situation of the women in Romania nowadays from a book about the history of Wallachia written two centuries ago
English, please / Literature
How’s Mihail Sebastian Doing in the UK?
Luiza Vasiliu
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.