Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Have you seen your grandmother has gone viral on Albanian Facebook?” a relative texted me. “Everyone is talking ...

What exactly does it mean to be free? “Freedom” was the mantra of the Cold War, at least on the Western side of the Iron Curtain. In the American mind, it is most often associated with the freedoms ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. To reach the old villa restaurant where we are to have lunch, my guest takes me along a beach fringing her childhood ...

Lea Ypi is chatting to me from Delhi, where it’s 10 at night and she’s just opened a beer: but neither the lateness of the hour nor the heat - not to mention the exhaustion of a month combining a ...

Lea Ypi, a politics professor at the London School of Economics, wanted to write a thoughtful book about concepts of freedom. She succeeded, quite brilliantly, although by means other than she had ...

The Albanian author of Free and the Turkish novelist discuss the rise of populism, censorship – and how today’s conflicts all come from the unresolved trauma of the past Lea Ypi’s prize-winning memoir ...

The Albanian academic describes coming of age at a turning point in history, and the family secrets exposed in its aftermath One wet afternoon in December 1990, little Lea Ypi ran across Tirana to the ...

She believed her parents loved Enver Hoxha’s Stalinist regime. But once Albania’s communist system collapsed, Lea Ypi began to realise nothing was as it seemed … Read an extract from Lea Ypi’s memoir, ...

This weekend, FT Weekend editor Alec Russell brings us to Albania for Lunch with the FT. He sits down with writer Lea Ypi, whose memoir ‘Free’ documents her childhood there, both under communism and ...

In the political theorist’s genre-bending book on Albania and historical memory, Indignity, she interrogates how much one family can be implicated in a country’s becoming. The narrator of Lea Ypi’s ...