Nico Petrakis

Arts Correspondent, The Continental Times

Nico covers arts for The Continental Times and has reported from more than a dozen countries.

She Photographed Athens for 50 Years. The City Is Only Now Looking Back.

A retrospective at the Benaki Museum gathers 300 prints by Eleni Karras, who recorded the Greek capital from the junta to the debt crisis and sold almost none of them.

Oct. 12, 2026 6 MIN READ

A street in the Plaka district of Athens, one of the neighborhoods Eleni Karras photographed repeatedly across five decades.

European Cinemas Post Their Best October in Seven Years, and Credit Local Films

Admissions across 20 European markets rose 14 percent from a year earlier, led by French, German, and Spanish productions rather than Hollywood franchises.

Oct. 8, 2026 5 MIN READ

Translated Fiction Hits a Record Share of British Book Sales, Driven by Readers Under 35

Novels translated from other languages accounted for nearly one in five fiction sales in Britain this year, a shift that publishers attribute to social media, small presses, and a generation that reads the world.

Oct. 8, 2026 5 MIN READ

Shelves in an independent bookshop in London, where translated novels now occupy prominent displays.

In the Canary Islands, a 54 Percent Tax Break Has Turned Volcanoes Into Back Lots

Spain’s Atlantic islands hosted 112 productions last year, including four American series. Local crews are thriving. Local housing is not.

Oct. 6, 2026 6 MIN READ

The volcanic landscape of Teide National Park on Tenerife, which has stood in for Mars, Afghanistan, and the surface of the moon in recent productions.