Daria Platania-Protopopova

I've been reporting from one of the biggest bookfairs in the world – London Book Fair (LBF) for years, since 2009. Each year it features over a 1,000 exhibitors, over 34,000 professional attendees. Sounds impressive, right? Yes, but it has also become very... boring! No personal chats with authors, you can meet publishers by prior appointment only, and small publishers are lumped together under their countries' national flags, as if publishing is strictly the matter of your country's...

Русский язык без России: международные русскоязычные и переводные журналы *ESOL = English for speakers of other languages With the outbreak of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, anti-war writers working in Russian have been confronted with a difficult question: what should they do with texts written in Russian? Should they stop writing and reading them? Should they switch to another language? There is no single answer to these difficult questions; each person must decide for themselves,...

Kristina Babi’s new book, Breakfast in London, Dinner in Paris The cookbook that makes you want to travel. This is how I’d describe...