English, please / Literature
“We Built Rio de Janeiro on a Cemetery of Slaves”
Luiza Vasiliu
A writer is filming his Brasil.
English, please
A curated cross-section of our publication's Romanian language version. Read up on globally noteworthy cultural personalities and societal goings-on in our corner of Eastern Europe.
English, please / Stuff
In Search of the Middle Class
Radu Ciorniciuc, Vlad Odobescu
What does it mean to be part of the Romanian middle class ? A team of anthropologists seeking answers.
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 / Cinema
Cristi Puiu: I’m Not a Director
Răzvan Chiruță
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.
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.
English, please / Arte vizuale
Adrian Ghenie: My Method Is Managing Failure
Luiza Vasiliu
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
English, please / Stuff
About Us
Scena9
Who we are, what we do, a meet-the-team and mission statement. Formalities and other such polite stuff, with all the necessary trimmings.
