20 YEARS OF VAGABOND

When the first issue of Vagabond hit the newsstand, in September 2006, Bulgaria and the world were so different that from today's standpoint it seems as though they were in another geological era

WAITING FOR THE GOATS

Christopher Fenton's memoir immerses us in everyday drama of life and death in rural Bulgaria

QUOTE-UNQUOTE

The Interior Ministry cannot replace education and family upbringing.

Ivan Demerdzhiev, Interior Minister, after five teenagers lured and killed a man, in Plovdiv

THE LITTLE VAGABOND

William Blake (1757-1827), the English poet and painter, respected both for his idiosyncratic views and his expressiveness often tainted with mysticism, has two headstones. One, pictured here, indicates he and his wife were buried "nearby," and the second, unveiled as late as 2018, stands at the exact location. Both are in the small Bunhill Fields cemetery in London