17.12.2022.
An emerging group of writers are providing Croatian literature with a disturbing new flavour
The best books from Southeastern Europe in English translation in 2022
10.07.2022.
A journey through the career of Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan, winner of this year's EBRD Literature Prize.
06.07.2021.
Felix Salten, Bambi the Deer, and Twentieth-Century Vienna
17.12.2020.
Eight books that made a difference in 2020.
A short story by Jurica Pavičić
27.10.2020.
Marko Tomaš reflects on autumn, Split, and the fate of the independent bookshop
14.10.2020.
With the late Bekim Sejranović’s award-winning novel From Nowhere to Nowhere appearing in English for the first time, we look back at the career of an extravagantly talented writer
Marc Casals takes a look at Mirko Kovač‘s novel The City in the Mirror, a classic of post-Yugoslav literature that is yet to appear in English translation
17.06.2020.
A short story by Maša Kolanović
Central Europe, Milan Kundera and Yugoslavia
Croatian journalist Adriana Piteša interviewed the Nobel Prize-winning novelist shortly before his death in 2010. He didn’t pull any punches.
Višnja Vukašinović looks back at a classic modernist novel about holidays gone horribly wrong
13.12.2019.
2019 in eight books
12.09.2018.
Miroslav Krleža’s masterpiece of mid-Twenties reportage is a compelling hybrid of travelogue, personal memoir and political essay
11.09.2018.
Marinetti, World War I, and why he ended up in Rijeka in 1919
27.10.2017.
The time is ripe for Croatia to regain its rightful place on the European horror map
05.01.2017.
Why we should be rereading Joseph Roth in 2017
14.12.2016.
So what is it that makes Vienna the capital of sex?
16.3.2016.
Outside Czech-speaking circles, underground writer and philosopher Egon Bondy remains almost unknown; however it’s hard to see where the Czech literary scene would be without him
10.3.2016.
The time is ripe for a rereading of Gregor von Rezzori, one of Central Europe’s most distinctive voices
15.6.2015.
The German author of Storm of Steel was the greatest writer to come out of the trenches of World War I. It’s almost exactly a century since he first saw front-line action.
