Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov’s Our Dear Friends in Moscow examines the factors that turned Russian journalists into government attack dogs.

David Szalay’s Flesh, winner of Booker Prize 2025, tells the story of a man’s life “using only the sparest of prose.”

Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood, the Canadian author’s first venture into memoir, is “full, expansive and joyful.”

The Red Shoes at London’s Sadler’s Wells makes for “a wonderful evening of dance, full of the transformative power of art itself.”

Le Doc en Scène Festival in Paris brings together exiled Russian and Ukrainian artists who oppose Moscow’s years-long invasion.