Issue 5 | March 2017

A Special Feature on Poets and Power: Language of Resilience from Central and Eastern Europe

• Introduction by Katrine Øgaard Jensen and Mirza Purić

Poetry

• Two poems by Miodrag Stanisavljević, translated from the B/C/S by Mirza Purić

• Two poems by Darko Cvijetic, translated from the B/C/S by Mirza Purić

• Three poems by Anja Marković, translated from the B/C/S by Mirza Purić

• Two poems by Selma Asotić, translated from the B/C/S by Mirza Purić

• Two poems by Bojan Krivokapić, translated from the B/C/S by Mirza Purić

• Two poems by Lidija Deduš, translated from the B/C/S by Mirza Purić

• Two poems by Julia Fiedorczuk, translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston

• Three poems by Wioletta Greg, translated from the Polish by Eliza Marciniak

Fiction

• Excerpt from Wolf Hunt by Ivailo Petrov, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel

• Excerpt from The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories by Osama Alomar, translated from the Arabic by C. J. Collins

• Excerpt from Celestine  by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Sherilyn Hellberg

Nonfiction

• Excerpt from Café Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe’s Most Ancient Places by Beebe Bahrami

Research

• “A Life Between Music and the Gulag: The Enigma of Carolina Codina” by Margaret Tejerizo

Commentary

• “The Politics of Belonging at the Eurovision Song Contest” by Phil Jackson

• “Music Soothes the Customs: Parliamentary Crisis in Poland” by Michal Kotnarowski and Michal Wenzel

Reviews

• The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger, reviewed by Nathan Delaney

• Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters, reviewed by Jonathan Durrant

• Measures of Expatriation, reviewed by Theophilus Kwek

Interviews

• “In Defense of Philosophical Liberalism: An Interview with Adam Zagajewski” by Morten Høi Jensen

• “Volunteering for Refugees in Calais: An Interview with Flor Tercero” by Özden Ocak

Visual Art

• Berlin Bhf: A Photography Series by Anna Tihayni

Campus

• “Literature & Central Europe: An Interview with Meghan Forbes” by Jake Purcell

• Syllabus: 20th Century Central European Literature by Meghan Forbes

• Syllabus: European Avant-­Garde in Print by Meghan Forbes

Editor’s Pick

• Inhabited Spaces: Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place by Nicole Discenza

• Stalin’s World War II Evacuations: Triumph and Troubles in Kirov by Larry E. Holmes

• Far-Right Politics in Europe by Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg

• Child Trafficking in the EU: Policing and Protecting Europe’s Most Vulnerable by Pete Fussey and Paddy Rawlinson

• Beyond the Migration and Asylum Crisis: Options and Lessons for Europe edited by Ferruccio Pastore