Albanian

A hare—the very symbol of timidity—on a Roman tombstone, where we might instead expect to find an eagle, a lion, or perhaps a horse?

The iconography of the stele is unique in the entire corpus of ancient archaeological finds: it depicts the deceased descending from the world of the living into the afterlife, escorted from the mourners by Hermes and Charon to the judge of the Underworld

When we speed past it on the highway as evening falls over Tirana, its curved concrete walls, reminiscent of the Ronchamp chapel, and the faintly glowing cross on its façade make me think it might be a modern church

We leave feeling very happy about what we had seen. We came to witness decay – and instead, we found life

The spectre of communism still haunts Tirana—today not through ideology, but in the form of wandering statues with no place to call home

Most of the figures are dressed in traditional attire and adopt a ritualized, almost sculptural posture for the camera, their faces closed, as though conscious of the legacy they are just leaving behind