Article list

17.12.2022.

Balkan Trails

How independent travellers discovered the former Yugoslavia

17.12.2022.

Welcome to the New Croatian Weird

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

10.07.2022.

Last Train to Kupari

Czechoslovakia's Shangri-la on the shores of the Adriatic.

26.05.2021.

Empire in Crumbs

Dominique Kirchner Reill’s new book The Fiume Crisis takes an iconoclastic new look at the history of Rijeka after World War I

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

17.06.2020.

Buried Alive

A short story by Maša Kolanović

13.12.2019.

Torpedo Town

The world’s first fully-operational torpedo was developed in Rijeka by Bolton-born engineer Robert Whitehead

04.11.2019.

Rebel Rebel

The time is ripe to rediscover the work of cult Croatian writer Janko Polić Kamov

06.09.2019.

Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Culture of Violence

Was the Italian soldier-poet a liberator? Or a warning of the dark times to come?

24.06.2019.

Yugoslavia in the Year 2000

Throughout 1960, Globus magazine ran a series of articles about what they thought the country would look like in the year 2000. Casting their eyes over existing plans for concrete suburbs and high-rise cities, Globus’s writers were essentially saying that, thanks to socialism, the future was already here.

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

10.09.2018.

The Elusive Emperor

Few people are so central to the history of Split as Roman Emperor Diocletian. And yet it’s surprising how little we know about the man.

27.10.2017.

Vampire Holiday

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

06.06.2017.

What is a song without a sleeve? Jugoton’s place in art and pop

Zagreb record label Jugoton didn’t just nurture a unique music scene. It also set new standards in Croatian design

25.11.2016.

Hoochie Coochie Hoću Kući

Is Milan Manojlović Mance’s Man from Katanga the greatest Croatian album ever made?

14.6.2016.

Apoksiomen Superstar

One of Europe’s most breathtaking new museums is on the Croatian island of Lošinj

12.6.2016.

Šibenik C’est Chic

Few destinations on the Adriatic have reinvented themselves so thoroughly as the central Dalmatian city of Šibenik.

09.5.2016.

Rijeka Rock City

It was the port city of Rijeka that led the way when it came to Croatia’s relationship with the electric guitar, and it is Rijeka that preserves most in terms of rock and roll heritage today.

25.4.2016.

Welcome to Hofbauerland

Few graphic artists are as closely associated with the Zagreb urban landscape as illustrator, poster designer and graphic novelist Igor Hofbauer.

25.4.2016.

Zadar Modern

Although rarely celebrated, it’s Zadar’s rich stock of Sixties-era architecture that gives the city so much character.

12.4.2016.

Awesome Orson

So why is there a statue of Orson Welles in the Croatian City of Split?

10.6.2015.

Radiator man

Croatian artist Julije Knifer spent the best part of 45 years painting endless variations on the theme of the meander. But did he ever intend so many of his meanders to be exhibited in the same gallery all at once?

4.6.2015.

Brushed off

Parts of the mural-covered wall running along Zagreb’s Branimirova ulica were demolished at the end of May 2015. The news was greeted by a wave of public indifference, despite the fact that the wall is one of the city’s defining visual landmarks.

9.5.2015.

Vojin Bakić

Few artists exemplify the former Yugoslvia’s modernist heritage quite so much as Croatian sculptor Vojin Bakić

4.5.2015.

Man paints Dog

Artist Miroslav Kraljević was the great hope of Croatian painting until his early death in 1913

27.4.2015.

Coast of Thrones

The more popular the Croatian Adriatic becomes, the less control it exerts over its own narratives

26.4.2015.

Fire burn, cauldron bubble

Home to the devilishly spicy fiš-paprikaš stew, the Baranja region is fast becoming one of Croatia’s prime gastronomic destinations.