English, please

Over the course of two weeks, I met with some of my favorite Icelandic artists to learn what makes up the place’s spirit and where the appetite for life comes from in darkness.

Edicola 518. Infinity in 4 Square Meters

Emilia Barbu

In Perugia, a town at the heart of Italy, a newsstand seemingly popped up out of nowhere to shake up the world.

English, please / Media&digital

John Oliver, a Discreet Superman

In February 2018 I headed over the Atlantic to meet John Oliver. What I talked to him about, who’s the Brit who changed the way we watch the news and how we can (can we?) bring order to the chaos around us—find out next.

English, please / Teenagers

My Classmates Told Me I Should Die

Lina Vdovîi, Sorina Vazelina

A 12-year-old Bucharest student resorted to cutting because of her classmates. Even though they should have intervened, the teachers had no idea what to do. Bullying still is an unknown phenomenon to many of Romania’s schools.

English, please / Holocaust

“I have a strange feeling that I need to run. Maybe you know why?”

Adrian Cioflâncă

These days, we talk more about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. We talk more openly, but judeophobia is rampant again. It was probably never really gone, just well-hidden.

English, please / Cinema

Comrade Detective, Voyeurism, and the Americans

Codruța Pohrib

The Cold War is trendy. “Comrade Detective” is an experiment based on the West’s nostalgia for its very own Cold War capitalism. And it’s right on trend.

English, please / Literature

'Unde este autogară?' An American Lost in Maramureș

Mark Baker

We asked one of the authors of the latest Lonely Planet Romania guide to recount a local travel experience. He took us all the way to Maramureș.

English, please / Cinema

Pink for Girls, and Blue for Boys. Gender Role Lies We Were Told Growing up

Ioana Pelehatăi, Livia Coloji

What isn’t becoming of a lady? What’s inappropriate for a man to do? I asked artists, journalists, and other professionals about who lied to them when they were children.

English, please / Tot felul

Red

Adrian Cioflâncă

June 2017 marks 76 years since the Iași Pogrom. It started with rumors, but there was another less-known catalyst: the color red.

English, please / Literature

To Fall in Love with Anyone, Read This

Luiza Vasiliu

I talked to Daniel Jones, the editor of The New York Times “Modern Love” column, about the hidden connections between love and writing.

English, please / Visual arts

Drawing is Dancing: A Proposed Guide for Geta Brătescu

Daria Ghiu

A tour of Geta Brătescu’s art. The first woman artist with a solo exhibition at the Romanian Pavilion in Venice.

English, please / Festival

“I’m Not Fond of Nostalgia.” An Interview with Radu Jude

Luiza Vasiliu

I talked to film director Radu Jude about his latest movie „Țara moartă” (“The Dead Nation”). A documentary about a Romania we don’t wish to remember.

English, please / Festival

TIFF 2017. Alain Delon is Acting Up Again

Vlad Odobescu

The TIFF guest of honor doesn't smile too often - and he doesn't need to either.

English, please / Visual arts

People from the Future Learn How People from Bucharest Used to Live in the Present

Ionuț Dulămiță

In the year 2017, 40 years after the Great Digital Quake and eight centuries after abolishing borders, a exhibition on Earth illustrates how people used to live in Bucharest a full millennium ago.

English, please / Politics

Emmanuel Macron. The Loneliness of a President

Cristina Hermeziu

The French people elected an enfant terrible as their president. Emmanuel Macron is 39 and contributes plenty of atypical details towards the symbolic imaginary of the presidency.

English, please / Depression

When Your Cat is the Only Person Who Understands You

Luiza Vasiliu

Andreea Chirică has drawn depression, loneliness, and 30+ disillusionment in “Home Alone”, one of the best books made in Romania published last year.

English, please / Education

What Central European University Means for Free Education and Democracy

Andra Matzal

8 CEU graduates remind us why keeping political control away from this university is vital for the freedom of education and democracy.

English, please / Film

Half an Hour of Tom Hardy’s Life (and Mine, Too)

Luiza Vasiliu

I met one of my favorite actors in Stockholm. We talked Taboo, kids & parents, acting & storytelling, power & corruption.

English, please / Visual arts

Adrian Ghenie on 10th Avenue at 27th Street

Mara Dănilă

I went to Pace Gallery, to see the first solo exhibition of the Romanian painter in the past four years in New York.

English, please / Visual arts

“This Museum Shall Be a Barricade”

Vlad Odobescu

Instead of labels and displays, the Museum of the Romanian Peasant asks the visitor to seek and uncoil the meanings of objects on their own.

English, please / Film

Berlinale Diary #2: Romanians Are Coming

Ioana Pelehatăi

Călin Netzer returns to the Berlinale with the hotly anticipated love story "Ana, mon amour" - but is his follow-up to "Child's Pose" Golden Bear-worthy?