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Tag Archives: politics

Travelling while Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nanjala Nyabola (Kenya)

Billed by the author as “not a travel memoir”, this is also a polemic about the injustices of migration policy and racism

Posted byimogenglad27th Feb 202328th Feb 2023Posted inbookTags: africa, books, female writers, feminism, kenya, Nanjala Nyabola, polemic, politics, Travelling while Black, travels3 Comments on Travelling while Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nanjala Nyabola (Kenya)

Review of Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi (Albania)

Much-lauded memoir of growing up in a secretive and rapidly changing Albania in the 1980 and 1990s

Posted byimogenglad23rd Mar 202223rd Mar 2022Posted inbookTags: Albania, Albania month, Albanian politics, book review, books, coming of age, Europe, female writers, Free, life writing, life-writing, memoir, political history, politics4 Comments on Review of Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi (Albania)

How to Feed a Dictator by Witold Szablowski (Poland)

An intriguing mix of reportage, memoir, political history and recipe book as Witold Szabłowski interviews the former chefs to a handful of murderous dictators.

Posted byimogenglad1st Sep 20211st Sep 2021Posted inbookTags: books, Europe, memoir, Poland, political history, politics, reportage, translated literatureLeave a comment on How to Feed a Dictator by Witold Szablowski (Poland)

Oscar-nominated Romanian film Collective (Review no 152)

My review of the Oscar-nominated Romanian health-care scandal documentary Collectivee

Posted byimogenglad10th May 202110th May 2021Posted infilm, UncategorizedTags: documentary, Europe, foreign film, politics, Romania, Romanian politics, subtitled filmLeave a comment on Oscar-nominated Romanian film Collective (Review no 152)

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