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…
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…
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…
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…
Review: Amalie Smith’s MARBLE
Amalie Smith photographed by David Stjernholm Amalie Smith is a Danish visual artist and writer, who has received numerous accolades in both fields of her work. Her novel Marble came…
Immortality of Poetry: A Review of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
If you are a fan of epic sci-fi space opera literature, you have either read or heard of the titan of its genre - the Hyperion Cantos. Although set in…
Sontag, Baldwin, hooks: On Reading As a Gateway to Empathy and Love
Susan Sontag had a writing mind like no other that I've encountered. She was a force, a magnetic personality born with an insatiable urge for knowledge, and she dedicated her…