In February, 2020, the Albanian-British philosopher Lea Ypi found herself in a closet trying to write a book about freedom. Ypi, who is a professor of political theory at the London School of ...

“Indignity,” by Lea Ypi, is a memoir, biography and imagined history prompted by a viral family photograph. By Elizabeth Graver Elizabeth Graver’s latest book, “Kantika,” is a novel inspired by the ...

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 ...

The past is always present. This is true for all of us, but it seems to be pressingly, possessingly true for the political philosopher Lea Ypi. She wrote about both her own and Albania’s past in Free, ...

A tale of family secrets and political awakening amid a crumbling regime, the LSE professor’s memoir is one of the nonfiction titles of the year In 1990 Lea Ypi was asked to write a school essay. The ...

Lea Ypi says vocal minority of Albanians have sent torrent of online insults criticising her bestseller, Free A memoir about growing up before and after the fall of communism in Albania has won rave ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...