The starting pointLet’s cherish our poetsLermontov, too, met the same fate as Pushkin and died in a duel that many believed to have been ‘orchestrated at the very top’. It is a terrible story of a country that cannot protect its poets, and also of those who, like us, forget thembyAdriano Dell’Asta10 OCT 26
Words for our times /7The true, disarming strengthTo us, those behind the Iron Curtain were dissidents. They preferred to call themselves ‘differently minded’. By thinking and living differently, they had done the simplest thing: in an unfree country, to behave like free peoplebyAdriano Dell’Asta22 AUG 26
