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About a Boy, Nick Hornby: The book or the film – is that the question?

By Ljubica Samardžić July 18, 2016

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…

Cohen’s bunch of lonesome heroes

By Sanja Gligorić April 8, 2016

Cohen’s writing career spans decades and includes numerous volumes of poetry as well as two novels. One of the two, The Favourite Game is not your typical novel, but poetry transformed…

Five Famous Fiends

By Andrea April 6, 2016

Author's note: This list is, of course, completely biased. Where there is light, there must be darkness, and where there is good, evil must also dwell. Upon our earthly abode,…

To Virginia Woolf, who created stars out of waves

By Sanja Gligorić January 25, 2016

"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

By Sanja Gligorić January 19, 2016

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!

By Milica July 30, 2015

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…

Have you ever wondered where your favourite author wrote his/her works? I collected 5 houses of famous writers. From Connecticut to Hampshire, each house has a story to tell. Some of them were the places where the greatest novels and poems were created. Let’s begin.