Gods of Jade and Shadow: A Fairytale Heroine Among Gods
“Even though I'm all grown up, I feel like I'm always looking for that magical fairy tale, the one that speaks to the kid in me while still appealing to…
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…
Literary Chic: From a Heroine to a Fashion Icon
Note: This article was originally published in Serbian back in 2016 by our editor Maja Žikić. Literature often treats fashion as a symbol of impermanence. Yet, it’s not uncommon for…
The Plurality of Identity in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
Note: This post was originally published in 2017. The Bell Jar was first published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, which was probably Plath’s way of distancing herself from…
Editor’s Picks: Celebrating Women in Translation Month
Our Editor, Sanja Gligoric In August 2020, we celebrated Women in Translation month with a myriad of literary reviews of novels written by remarkable women. This year we’d also like…
Special Feature: Review of ON BEING ILL (Uitgeverij HetMoet)
Uitgeverij HetMoet’s outstanding collection titled On Being Ill was published in 2021 taking its name from Virginia Woolf’s essay from 1926. Apart from Woolf and Audre Lorde’s writings, the anthology…