Discussing a new dynamic of her relationship with Portugal, Portuguese editor Clementine Lussiana explores the complexity of having a home away from home.

Jenny Frost takes us on a virtual tour of the Italian city of Ravenna, exploring how the city embraces its cultural heritage while pushing forward into modernity.

Wiktoria Mól discusses Germany’s response to the conflict in Ukraine and explores its cautiousness to avoid repeating history.

Rebecca Nolten writes about Germany’s artists and how their work has lacked appreciation in art history.

Through a historical lens and a deep-dive into symbolism, Anja Gogo unravels the musical gomitolo that is Bella Ciao, a resistance anthem per eccellenza.

With a welcome deviation from traditional Renaissance focus, Camilla Allibone celebrates Battiferra’s transcendence. In terms of the female image, she analyses her portrait as literal art and as a symbolical vector.

Jenny Frost reviews the new Italian cartoon mini-series Strappare lungo i bordi by artist Zerocalcare.

With official access to independent news now virtually non-existent for Russians, Barney Crawford explores the complex truth behind Telegram, a hugely popular messaging service that has become something of a digital battleground in Russia’s information war.

Alice Mee looks back on her memories of living in Kyiv before the war and describes her connection to the city

With a deeply immersive viewpoint, Harriet Gilbert Savage explores the Neapolitan phoenix through second-hand encounters, leaving us enchanted by the city’s inescapable magnetism.

Sofia Johanson takes a look at the convoluted history of Fabergé eggs, exploring how they went from epitomising tsarist decadence to being at the centre of international disputes and mysteries even today

Retracing back to life’s simple pleasure, Anja Gogo challenges the utopic aura of the dolce far niente, exploring what it really means to be maestri dell’improvvisare.

Daphne Pleming reviews the album ‘Nonante-cinq’ by Angèle, exploring the way she expresses Belgian identity through her melancholic and diverse music.

‘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 last instalment, Kieran looks at Ume Sámi, a descendent of Uralic language used along the north of Sweden, and how it differs from Scandinavian languages.

Have you ever wondered which Mitski song best encapsulates the psycho-sexual melodrama of Madame Bovary? If you answered yes then I hate you but you're welcome to read this column nonetheless - though, you're on thin ice.

With her first article as columnist, Camilla Allibone proposes a rediscovery of the celebrated Italian Renaissance through the lens of the female experience.

Columnist Miruna Tiberiu explores in her column ‘La Quête Queer’ queer life and culture in France. In her second article for the column, she writes on her re-evaluation of Simone de Beauvoir as a queer figure, looking into the often overlooked passages on lesbians in her seminal ‘Le Deuxième Sexe’.

In the first instalment of her column, Helena Pruszewicz traces French feminism back to its roots- revolution- and analyses the égalité achieved in the ensuing period