Culture

Gwen John’s competing passions; a sunny vision of Wales; Jules Verne’s Scotland; intergenerational trauma in Belfast.

As academic freedom comes under pressure in Georgia, revisiting the country’s complex history of higher education offers a new way of understanding both its European aspirations and the obstacles that stand in their way, says the rector of Tbilisi’s Ilia

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As a writer, Slavenka Drakulić sought to evoke the life of the single individual in a way that made empathy possible, writes her friend Marci Shore.

With her concrete observations of everyday patriarchy, Slavenka Drakulić left a deep mark on a generation of women readers, writes her friend Marija Ott Franolić.

From late-90s punk to ‘Happyism’, the trajectory of former The Flowers front-man Wowkie Zhang exposes a dialectic typical of China’s mainstream: alternative impulses constantly surface, are monetised, then recur in new guises.

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When citizens are the targets of direct military action, humanity suffers alongside those under fire. First-hand insights of travelling to Ukraine’s war zones are reminders of just how close Russia’s ongoing war is.

An optimistic take on AI aesthetics; the destruction of Vilnius during the Soviet Union; the arrested development of Lithuanian urban culture; searching for a father killed in 1941.