Billed by the author as “not a travel memoir”, this is also a polemic about the injustices of migration policy and racism
Tag Archives: politics
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
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.
Oscar-nominated Romanian film Collective (Review no 152)
My review of the Oscar-nominated Romanian health-care scandal documentary Collectivee