An insightful new book chronicles the rise and fall of a musical genre that for a time – for better or worse – became the ‘world’s window into Balkan identity’. For a while, Balkan folk was “the new ...

In “Spies of the Balkans,” Alan Furst breathes vitality into the espionage novel by fusing it with historical fiction. The book is set primarily in the northeastern Greek city of Salonika between late ...