Two semesters ago, while browsing through books in a local college bookstore, I stumbled upon a thick book with black cover: “Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001”. I reluctantly reached for it: “Damn it, 720 pages! And two weeks later, [...]

The ruins decay - the vultures fly away
No longer flocking round the gore.
But painful and unhealing stay
The ever-gnawing wounds of war.
Michaś Vasilok
The cold autumn wind sweeps over the ground driving the withered leaves under the zavalinkas* and sways the wet branches in the small garden. It prances mischievously from round the corners into the [...]

It might be said that not many people know much about Belarus. Our history is complicated and full of twists, geopolitical situation is not that important in the middle of the Middle Eastern crisis. Some say that Belarus is not well known compared to Ukraine or Russia, there is not much literature available for the [...]

Punctum? Studium? What the hell…do these words mean?
If you have similar questions popping up in your mind than we are on the same page. Or I would rather say we could have been. And the reason for it is a book “Camera Lucida” by Roland [...]