Bookstagram’s Top 10 Books of the 21st Century
When The New York Times Book Review published its list of The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century earlier this year, thousands of readers reacted with criticism. The post…
The First Serbian Crime Novel and Authors Below the Radar of Mainstream Literature: No Rules Publishing
Focused on publishing both Serbian and foreign authors who are “below the radar of mainstream culture”, No Rules has brought out over thirty thematically and genre-diverse titles over the past few years.
Poetry on Big Screen: 12 Movies with Poetic References (Part 1)
The cinematic ambiance is a powerful way of funneling complex emotions expressed in poetry.
R. F. Kuang’s Babel and the Arcane Art of Translation
The early 19th century Oxford was the center of intellectual progress where knowledge was born, transmitted, and put into use by the increasingly industrialized nation. The scholarly work of the…
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…
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…