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…
The First Generation
There is something I have only recently begun to understand about being the first generation. You are never entirely alone. Not even when you are sitting at the kitchen table…
The Serbian Things I Didn’t Understand Until I Grew Up
Author: Milanka Sulejic When I was a kid, I thought my family was weird.Not bad weird.Just… Serbian weird.I didn't have the vocabulary for it then. I only knew that other…
A String of Seasons
1st of November 2024. Not everything came down
That day. The old world had been dying for ages,
Is Originality in Art Truly Possible?
Art is a form of human creation, something that moves through imagination, skill, and emotion. Sometimes it’s aesthetically pleasing, other times brutally truthful. For some, it becomes a way to…
Why do we feel understood by fictional characters?
People read fiction for various reasons. Some are drawn to the excitement of a plot, others to the comfort of escaping reality. There is something peaceful about sitting in a…
Is Global Governance Possible?
The question of whether global governance is possible is usually approached through very formal images such as institutions, treaties, and cooperation between states (Weiss, 2013). It almost immediately suggests a…
More than Sound: Listening to What Makes Us Human
Music is everywhere. It fills elevators, headphones, childhood bedrooms, stadiums, and quiet moments we did not know needed sound. It exists before we learn how to speak and stays with…