EAT. is the name of a chain restaurant in London. It sounds like an order. According to A., it's a remainder of the aggressive aesthetics of the nineties.  At the Southbank we visit the ABBA exhibit…

I'm at Saint George English Bookshop and see a book about Russian avant-garde in fiction. P. tells me he's reading a new book about Eastern Europe. "It's really good but also super sp…

First snowman of the year! Day 1 “I had the best Russian food in Helsinki,” a friend from Belgium writes me in an email. I’m wondering if it’s inappropriate to say so about a country that has be…