An Interview with Ola Jostein Jørgensen, author of “No One Dreams of Oslo”
What still feels so traumatic to people in Norway was to outsiders just another bad event in a never-ending series of bad events.
Gravity and Waggery: A Review of Bohumil Hrabal’s “All My Cats”
“What are we going to do with all those cats?”
“After the Wall (1991)”
You are now a possibility in the whole country, // traversing the once-border—that no one sees—
Why Eastern European Women’s Sexual Pleasure Is Their Own Business and Other Arguments for Intersectional Socialism
We were not duped by capitalism and didn’t desire
exploitation, and a lot of us saw Western consumerism as both shallow and wasteful. It’s more because of our poverty and powerlessness than our intelligence that in the end all we got in Eastern Europe was neoliberal capitalism. After all, even American citizens, empowered, enlightened individuals, have been unable to stop its ruthless progress.
“Tights” & “Stone”
Bronka Nowicka’s poems, “Tights” and “Stone,” translated from the Polish by Katarzyna Szuster, appear in the Michigan Quarterly Review’s Fall 2019 Europe issue. Tights It likes the taste of a knee. In the summer, it has mouthfuls straight from the skin, in the winter, through