‘Tongue Tied’ is a short tour through Europe via some of its most at-risk languages. In a series of four articles, Columnist Kieran McGreevy will examine four languages from across the corners of Europe, with the aim of showing what has led these languages to the brink of extinction (and sometimes back), by untying the history of the people, the linguistics of the language itself, and the efforts being made to keep these tongues alive. In the third instalment, Kieran looks at Pontic Greek, a descendent of vernacular Ancient Greek spoken in the Eastern Roman Empire.

In the second instalment of her column, Paris newly-local Emily Moss gives tips on how to stay financially afloat living abroad.

East Asia columnist Liam Elliott Brady explores the historical development of the Taiwanese night market and its role in modern-day Taiwan.

In the first instalment of her column The French Dispatch, Emily Moss discusses the loneliness of first moving abroad, and how to overcome it.

Anatoly Grablevsky considers the long shadow of the Great Patriotic War in Soviet and post-Soviet space in the second installment of his column ‘The Remains of the Red Day’, exploring its continued influence on cultural output and contemporary politics.

‘Tongue Tied’ is a short tour through Europe via some of its most at-risk languages. In a series of four articles, Columnist Kieran McGreevy will examine four languages from across the corners of Europe, with the aim of showing what has led these languages to the brink of extinction (and sometimes back), by untying the history of the people, the linguistics of the language itself, and the efforts being made to keep these tongues alive. In this second instalment, Kieran explores the history and revival of Cornish.

In his column ‘Between Wars, Between Identities’, Sam Rubinstein explores key issues of early twentieth-century Ashkenazi Jewish poetry, including antisemitism in Eastern Europe prior to the Holocaust, literary debates over the use of local vernaculars in Jewish poetry and expression, and Jewish nationalism and the beginnings of the Zionist movement. In this first column, he takes a look at the divide in Polish Jewish literary circles over language choice, and how key actors reconciled language with their evolving identities.

Anatoly Grablevsky explores the Russian Civil War’s lasting impact on the national consciousness in the first installment of his column ‘The Remains of the Red Day’.

‘Tongue Tied’ is a short tour through Europe via some of its most at-risk languages. In a series of four articles, Columnist Kieran McGreevy will examine four languages from across the corners of Europe, with the aim of showing what has led these languages to the brink of extinction (and sometimes back), by untying the history of the people, the linguistics of the language itself, and the efforts being made to keep these tongues alive. In the first instalment, Kieran looks at Occitan, its history, features, and efforts for revitalisation.

Alice Wright explores Han Kang’s recently translated novel, The Vegetarian (2007), a deeply disturbing yet beautiful work about agency, mental health, and belief from the perspective of a Korean woman.