Tag Archives: Minsk

Cabinet of Curiosities (sort of)

Posted on January 30, 2026 by Brian D. Butler

Check out the disappointed tourist: an elegy to lost places, a record of those grand and mundane places lost to time or other occurrences, whose presence we continue to mourn. “It would be better to describe reading not as a … Continue reading →

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Save a publisher and fight oppression

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

Since its founding in 2000 by Ihar Lohvinau, the Lohvinau Publishing House and Bookstore in Minsk, Belarus has been a beacon for freedom. The international award-winning press and bookshop has been a consistent thumb in the eye of the country’s … Continue reading →

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