'The Traitor's Niche' by Ismail Kadare takes us on a absurd and horrifying journey into the heart of a oppressive regime's nightmare bureaucracy.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Doruntine’ from Blessed Unrest and Kosovo’s Teatri ODA Brings Albanian Legend to Life – and Death
The opportunity to see this well-acted, smoothly written, excitingly staged, and chilling work of cultural blending is the kind of thing for which we can be grateful.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Albania’s Mountain Queen: Edith Durham and the Balkans’ by Marcus Tanner
A fascinating woman leads us through a now almost forgotten world at the dangerous meeting point of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires.
Read More »Book Review: The Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare
Albanian author Ismail Kadare's latest novel translated into English adds to a body of work that may earn him a Nobel Prize.
Read More »Book Review: The Country Where No One Ever Dies by Ornela Vorpsi
Novel's well written vignettes of life in Communist Albania ultimately fall short of creating broad insight into its people.
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