Issue 13 | December 2017

A Special Feature on Contemporary Bulgarian Literature
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(Fiction) An excerpt from The Same Night Awaits Us All by Hristo Karastoyanov, translated from the Bulgarian by Izidora Angel
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(Fiction) “O, Henry!” byGeorgi Gospodinov, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel
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(Fiction) “Gollum and I” by Elena Alexieva
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(Nonfiction) “Roller Skates” by Dimitar “Shosho” Kotzev, translated from the Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova
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(Poetry) “Two Poems” by Elitza Kotzeva
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(Poetry) “Six Poems” by Ivan Hristov, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel
A Special Feature on Diversity, Security, Mobility: Challenges for Eastern Europe
Research
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“Between Humanitarianism and Security: Displacement in a Perilous State of Exception” by James Fitzgerald
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“Kaliningrad Oblast and Challenges to the Baltic Sea Region” by Sergey Sukhankin
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“Russia’s ‘Myth’ of Equality in a Securitized Context” by Federica Prina
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“Good Europeans or Poor Relations? Transnational Minority Activism in the Age of European Integration” by Marina Germane
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“Securitizations of Identities” by Ana Ivasiuc
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“Securitizing the Unknown Borderlands: Czechoslovak Subcarpathian Rus and Its Minorities” by Sebastian Paul
Commentary
Reviews
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TV Socialism,reviewed byStefan Zimmerman
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A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen, reviewed byMarianne Stecher
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Das Charisma der Weltrevolution. Revolutionärer Internationalismus in der frühen Sowjetgesellschaft 1917-1927, reviewed by Theodore Weeks
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American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Dream, reviewed by Samantha Lomb
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Russian History Through the Senses From 1700 to the Present, reviewed by Steven Marks
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Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus,reviewed byTor Bukkvoll
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Cold War Energy: A Transnational History of Soviet Oil and Gas, reviewed by Nick Ostrum
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Friendship, Family, Revolution: Nikolai Charushin and a Generation of Populists of the 1870s, reviewed byAleksandr Iakovlevich Gudov
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Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania, reviewed byGeorgeta Connor
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The Eurasian Wheat Belt and Food Security Global and Regional Aspects, reviewed byJudith Pallot
Interviews
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“Forging Cultural Centers: An Interview with Lora Tchekoratova and Milena Deleva,” by Lillian Klein
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“Minorities, Diversities, and Securities: An Interview with Peter Haslinger,” by Lillian Klein
Visual Art
Podcast
Fiction
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The Green Hand and Other Stories by Nicole Claveloux, translated from the French byDonald Nicholson-Smith
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Three Plastic Rooms by Petra Hůlová, translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker
The Borders Project
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(Fiction) “You’ll Be Me” byNeđla Ćemanović
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(Poetry) “Anorexic Safety of Public Transport” by Nermana Česko, translated from the B/C/S byMirza Purić
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(Nonfiction) “Yankee Messiah” bySuzanne Mozes
Editor’s Pick
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The Struggle for Cataloniaby Raphael Minder
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The Reformer: How One Liberal Fought to Preempt the Russian Revolutionby Stephen Williams
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A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North Americaby Sam White
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The Maritime Turn in EU Foreign and Security Policies: Aims, Actors and Mechanisms of Integrationby Marianne Riddervold
Campus Spotlight: Columbia University
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“Launching the Roma People’s Project at Columbia University” byCristiana Grigore
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“A Digital Space to Imagine What is Possible: An Interview with Frances Negrón-Muntaner” byCristiana Grigore
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“On Criminalized Identities and Empowering Marginalized Communities:An Interview with Geraldine Downey” byCristiana Grigore