Poetry on Big Screen: 12 Movies with Poetic References (Part 2)
Even though often considered a dying art, poetry still has an important place in people’s lives and, by extension, in popular culture.
Literary Travelogue: An Interview With Jelena Vukicevic (Visibaba)
Photo by Milos Petrovic We open our upcoming series of literary interviews with our conversation with Jelena Vukicevic, a professor of literature and a former bookseller. Jelena holds a BA…
Rediscovering Freedom with Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Effia and Esi have never met. Their stories begin in the mid-18th century Ghana, when the British slave trade starts to flourish in the country. One of the two half-sisters…
On Embracing the Fantastic in Literature: Coleridge vs. Tolkien
Coleridge´s concept of “willing suspension of disbelief” argues that a reader’s mind can transcend known reality and naturally embrace the impossible in a work of fiction.
Bookstagram’s Top 10 Books of the 21st Century
When The New York Times Book Review published its list of The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century earlier this year, thousands of readers reacted with criticism. The post…
7 Everyday English Words Coined by Coleridge
Of all the concepts associated with English Romantic poetry, romance has the least to do with it.
The First Serbian Crime Novel and Authors Below the Radar of Mainstream Literature: No Rules Publishing
Focused on publishing both Serbian and foreign authors who are “below the radar of mainstream culture”, No Rules has brought out over thirty thematically and genre-diverse titles over the past few years.
Poetry on Big Screen: 12 Movies with Poetic References (Part 1)
The cinematic ambiance is a powerful way of funneling complex emotions expressed in poetry.
R. F. Kuang’s Babel and the Arcane Art of Translation
The early 19th century Oxford was the center of intellectual progress where knowledge was born, transmitted, and put into use by the increasingly industrialized nation. The scholarly work of the…