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…
About a Boy, Nick Hornby: The book or the film – is that the question?
Discussions about books and film adaptations always seem to divide people. Book-lovers vs. film-lovers. You feel obligated, as if by some social norm, to choose a side and argue in…
To Virginia Woolf, who created stars out of waves
"The waves showed that uneasiness, like something alive, restive, expecting the whip, of waves before a storm." - Jacob’s Room Where does one start when trying to approach the grandeur of…
An ode to my hero Julian Barnes, a literary giant
There are times when we feel like everything around us has shattered and there is simply nothing to hold on to. In my own escapades of this sort, I’ve been…
Happy birthday, Emily Brontë!
On this day in 1818, a renowned British novelist and poet, Emily Brontë was born. To pay homage to Brontë's enormous writing talent, we compiled a list of little-known, yet interesting…
Judging a book by its cover: The Bell Jar
This is a heart-rending story of big expectations, secret hopes and immense disappointments. Esther Greenwood, Plath’s invented persona, feels trapped inside the dreary world that surrounds her. It is as if she’s living under a bell jar. On her road from adolescence to adulthood, she is lost since she has no hand to guide her. Poetry may be the only thing that could protect her from her suicidal tendencies. Undoubtedly, Plath’s persona is so realistic and relatable that the readers cannot help but empathize with her.