With her new perspectives on Kazakhstan, Eve Mayes takes us on a hurtling tour of Almaty as she finds her feet in her home.

In this article, Alexandra writes a enchanting article that focuses on the cafe, Leon, as a site through which she remembers her Year Abroad experience in St. Petersburg.

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.

Rosie Aylard’s first column explores her work as a teaching assistant in one of Argentina’s elite schools. Her students are itching to get out but she’s only just arrived.

‘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

For the next stop of his culinary journey through Taiwan, East Asia columnist Liam Elliott Brady takes us to the infamous rechao, where one finds the Taiwanese at their liveliest and, more often than not, their drunkest. From gongpao jiding (Kung Pao Chicken) to zhuxiegao (Pig’s Blood Cake), the rechao puts the idea of the buffet to shame through its abundance of local and foreign dishes.

Columnist Miruna Tiberiu explores in her column ‘La Quête Queer’ queer life and culture in France. In her first instalment, she analyses perception and self-perception in Xavier Dolan’s films, and reflects on her own experiences.

Columnist Pippa Mentzel explores the brilliant and bizarre linguistic phenomena of idioms to uncover what they show us about our cultural heritage and how our imaginative human mind revels in describing the world around us. In the second instalment, Pippa talks us through the origins and usages of two bean-related idioms.

Columnist Pippa Mentzel explores the brilliant and bizarre linguistic phenomena of idioms to uncover what they show us about our cultural heritage and how our imaginative human mind revels in describing the world around us. In the first instalment, Pippa talks us through the origins of ‘turning a new leaf’ and discusses a new way to ask after others.

Columnist Alice Wright reviews Olga Tokarczuk’s 2009 novel Drive Your Plow, an astonishing amalgam of murder mystery and dark feminist comedy.

East Asia columnist Liam Elliott Brady explores Taiwan’s rich vegetarian heritage and its historical links with Buddhism.

Sam Rubinstein explores themes of displacement and Polish-Jewish searches for belonging in Maurycy Szymel’s inter-war poetry

In the next instalment of her column, Emily Moss is grateful for the changing nature of friendships on her year abroad, both old and new.

Anatoly Grablevsky considers the lasting impact of the dissolution of the Soviet Union on the Russian national consciousness and its consequences for politics today.