- July 9, 2026
‘To compose a sentence was to take a moral stance’
Slavenka was… irrepressible. I had been reading her for many years before we met. Her writing belonged among my first encounters with eastern Europe. At
Memory over ideology | Eurozine
With articles ranging from the legacies of occupation and exile to contemporary art, poetry, urban history and anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence, the current issue of
Dispatch from Ukraine | Eurozine
It’s 9am on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and in Ternopil, all the traffic has stopped. People step out of their
Russia’s imprisoned mothers | Eurozine
In December 2025, the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council member Eva Merkacheva asked Vladimir Putin to perform a ‘holiday miracle’. Appealing on behalf of people
A moral compass: Slavenka Drakulić (1949–2026)
Slavenka Drakulić’s integrity was unshakeable. When she described a conflict, a society or a human predicament, she was not simply an authoritative observer, but a
The world next door | Eurozine
When Anu, a young Hindu nurse, slips into a blue burqa to meet her Muslim lover Shiaz in Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light
Palestine: A future to rebuild
The destruction of Gaza has remained strangely invisible, despite unfolding before a global audience, write Hamit Bozarslan, Anne-Lorraine Bujon and Joël Hubrecht in their introduction
Competing for the origin of life
For this is why not only lice, bedbugs, fleas and helminths, come into being as the guests and neighbours of our wretchedness, and are born
Disability histories | Eurozine
With 1.3 billion people (and counting) living with disabilities around the world, and in the context of a neoliberal order that prioritizes ‘competition and body
A staggering reversal of assumptions
President Donald Trump’s unjustified and unjustifiable war against Iran has shown the fragility of the fossil fuel-based energetic order. At the very same moment, China’s