What is the best book of 2021?
The best book of 2021, as far as I am concerned, is out. The storyteller, the human rights advocate, the feminist and, as she prefers to introduce herself, the citizen of humanity, Elif Shafak, created [...]
Artificial Intelligence – the end of us?
Klara and the Sun, a book launched in March 2021, is the first book Kazuo Ishiguro published after he got the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. It’s a book confirming that the Japanese-born British author [...]
Zemfira on the Borderline
Zemfira just released her first album after a sabbatical 8-year long silence. The album is a revelation, and, to me, it comes out as a heart-breaking acknowledgement that an artist can only write genuine [...]
UK-Romanian Literary Festival
Romanian and Moldovan authors who have made the UK their home and inspiration for many years – Ioana Baetica Morpurgo, Stela Brînzeanu, Vica Demici, Cristina Mureșan, Simona Nastac, Andreea Scridon and Anda Vahnovan – [...]
VARA ÎN CARE MAMA A AVUT OCHII VERZI
'Tu vei înțelege, eu sunt sigură că tu vei simți cartea mea', mi-a spus Tatiana. Așa că mi-am propus să n-o citesc pe apucate, în câteva seri. Am așteptat o duminică, în care tot [...]
QUANTITATIVE METHODS
Vanished inside my own desert Overwhelmed by the dummy variables of my postponed dates Failing to remember the standard deviation of my decisions Hidden somewhere under or above precisions Caught in the middle of several [...]