Tchaikovsky, a master of orchestral sonority, places a good part of the emotional and expressive burden on the orchestra, leaving the singers with well-crafted melodies and dialogues in Russian speech ...

Taras Shevchenko, a prominent Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, and public figure of the 19th century, is revered as a national hero in Ukraine. His literary works, which primarily focus on the lives ...

A viral theory claims US President Donald Trump could be a time traveller, citing 19th-century sketches by Charles Dellschau ...

Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes’s final novel, Departure(s), continues the tradition of writers looking at life through the ...

For Iranians, the current assault is part of a much longer history in which repeated invasions have tested the country's ...

Every generation opens a new chapter in the rich old tale of Scottish publishing, with companies now covering the length and breadth of the ...

Selected by Veronica Buckley, the author of “Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe’s First Family.” ...

A regular monitoring of disinformation, influence operations, and hybrid threats in central Europe, the Baltics and Romania.

The German auteur Christian Petzold made his name with haunting psychological thrillers. His new film was shaped by losses of his own.

A Writer’s Biography,” by Yuri Lotman.

A Polish version of ‘Apocalypse Now!’ or a communist take on ‘Before Sunrise’? Or perhaps a modern adaptation of ‘The Wedding’ half a century before Smarzowski made his? Let’s take a closer look at ...

A Polish version of ‘Apocalypse Now!’ or a communist take on ‘Before Sunrise’? Or perhaps a modern adaptation of ‘The Wedding’ half a century before Smarzowski made his? Let’s take a closer look at ...