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English, please / Film
Ilinca Manolache Dares
Maria Cârstian, Andrei Becheru
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".
English, please / War
We don’t talk about the war here
Michael Bird
I worked for over a month as a volunteer trying to help Ukrainian refugees in Bucharest, and this is what I found.
English, please / War
Will Russia Invade Moldova?
Michael Bird
How, where and with what justification could Russia launch an attack?
English, please / War
What we lose and what we don't lose in Kyiv
Michael Bird
Ukraine’s capital is a memorial not only to the sacrifice of the oppressed against greater odds, but also to willpower, dynamism and revival.
English, please / Coronavirus
Friends in the Time of Corona
Oana Lohan, Oana Țenter
Several house mates in London share their diaries during lockdown.
English, please / Press
Edicola 518. Infinity in 4 Square Meters
Emilia Barbu
In Perugia, a town at the heart of Italy, a newsstand seemingly popped up out of nowhere to shake up the world.
English, please / Cinema
Comrade Detective, Voyeurism, and the Americans
Codruța Pohrib
The Cold War is trendy. “Comrade Detective” is an experiment based on the West’s nostalgia for its very own Cold War capitalism. And it’s right on trend.
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 / 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 / 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 / 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.
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 / Tot felul
A Summer Reading Children’s Books
Irina Dobriță
This is what it was like to spend two months reading to Romania’s poorest children.
English, please / Brexit
Romania: a great reason for Brits to stay in the EU
Michael Bird
What will Brexit mean? That the successful political union between the unlikely brothers of Romania and the UK will suddenly vanish.