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Article list

17.12.2022.

Welcome to the New Croatian Weird

An emerging group of writers are providing Croatian literature with a disturbing new flavour

17.12.2022.

Reading the Territory

The best books from Southeastern Europe in English translation in 2022

10.07.2022.

On the Road Again

A journey through the career of Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan, winner of this year's EBRD Literature Prize.

06.07.2021.

A Life in the Woods

Felix Salten, Bambi the Deer, and Twentieth-Century Vienna

17.12.2020.

4 x fiction, 4 x fact

Eight books that made a difference in 2020.

17.12.2020.

The Nativity Scene

A short story by Jurica Pavičić

27.10.2020.

Utopia

Marko Tomaš reflects on autumn, Split, and the fate of the independent bookshop

14.10.2020.

The Nowhere Man

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

14.10.2020.

Kovač Through the Looking Glass

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.

Buried Alive

A short story by Maša Kolanović

17.06.2020.

Living the Dream

Central Europe, Milan Kundera and Yugoslavia

17.06.2020.

José Saramago: “Writers are no longer authors, but content providers”

Croatian journalist Adriana Piteša interviewed the Nobel Prize-winning novelist shortly before his death in 2010. He didn’t pull any punches.

17.06.2020.

Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb

Višnja Vukašinović looks back at a classic modernist novel about holidays gone horribly wrong

13.12.2019.

Fiction, non-fiction, truth and lies

2019 in eight books

12.09.2018.

Journey to Russia

Miroslav Krleža’s masterpiece of mid-Twenties reportage is a compelling hybrid of travelogue, personal memoir and political essay

11.09.2018.

Caution, Futurist Approaching

Marinetti, World War I, and why he ended up in Rijeka in 1919

27.10.2017.

Vampire Holiday

The time is ripe for Croatia to regain its rightful place on the European horror map

05.01.2017.

Man in a Suitcase

Why we should be rereading Joseph Roth in 2017

14.12.2016.

Sachertorte, Sacher-Masoch

So what is it that makes Vienna the capital of sex?

16.3.2016.

Crucif*cked: the extraordinary career of Egon Bondy

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.

Ruritania returns

The time is ripe for a rereading of Gregor von Rezzori, one of Central Europe’s most distinctive voices

15.6.2015.

Death, metal: Ernst Jünger and Germany’s 20th century

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.

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