Twenty-two books damaged in the Ranok publishing house attack are now part of Born/Burn Alive, an art installation at the 2026 Frankfurt Book Fair.

Andrei Rublev’s Trinity icon, which was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church in 2023, has been removed from the iconostasis at Trinity Sergius Lavra, the Russian business news outlet RBC…

Sometimes, you can remember what ordinary life was like before Russia’s invasion. Then reality comes screaming back, says artist Anna Ivanenko

Sixty years ago, a protest in Moscow received almost no coverage in Soviet newspapers but helped launch the human rights movement. Several dozen people gathered in Pushkin Square to demand that the…

Individuum is closing. In its 11 years, the publisher’s team showed that there was another way to publish literature in Russian: with energy, flair (just look at their covers), and speed. Founded…

The designation of “foreign agent” is used by the Russian government to label individuals and organizations that receive foreign support or are (more nebulously) deemed to be under “foreign i…

The Kremlin is redefining what it means to be a writer in Russia.

Recently, in a small bookshop in Paris (it is, in fact, called La Petite Librairie), I found my way to what was a shockingly wide selection of foreign books in French translation. I browsed through…

For the past four decades, Slavic cultures have contended with chronic attempts at erasure. Eastern European countries have <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2010091" rel="">fought to wrest…

The absence of Mount Ararat from Armenia's new biometric passports is the latest effort from Yerevan to decouple Armenians from the iconic Turkish landmark that has long been used by Armenia as a…

The long freeze on free expression is cracking in Russia as it did at the end of the Soviet Union. It's two biggest artistic exponents are on show at Ethan Cohen Gallery.

Pussy Riot protested Russia’s return to the Venice Biennale with pink smoke, Ukrainian flags, and chants against war and propaganda.

Russia’s 2026 Victory Day parade lasted 45 minutes, the shortest in modern history and the first in 19 years without military vehicles on Red Square.

When I described Ambivalent Souls to my colleagues, they responded with some version of “Oh, so it’s more of an adaptation.” However, Tanner’s text, true to its subtitle, is a translation.

I’m not a medievalist but fell in love with one because he seduced me by quoting lines—in Middle English—from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. And of course, in my besotted state of lust, I studied that…

The second International Conference on Globalisation/Deglobalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2026) is going to be held 28-30 July, 2026, Manchester, UK.

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many aspects of human life, including language use and interaction dynamics in vulnerable minority communities worldwide. Yet...

The deadline for the next round of applications for authors’ travel grants is May 31, 2026.

The conference brings together researchers, practitioners and policymakers from the realms of education, languages, cultural studies, translation/interpreting, communication & development economics to...

Harriman Magazine: 2026 Issue