Reviews

REVIEW: The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn

By Sanja Gligorić September 30, 2020

Bearing in mind the fact that September 30, 2020 marks the International Translation Day, we've decided to share with you a treasure of translated fiction: Olga Ravn's masterful novel titled…

Review: Helen Marten’s debut novel The Boiled in Between

By Sanja Gligorić August 27, 2020

The Boiled in Between is the debut novel by Turner Prize-winning artist Helen Marten, a work of fiction that will surely be acclaimed for its author's bold and innovative geist.…

Tine Høeg’s New Passengers: A Brilliant Mélange of Uncertainty and Strength

By Sanja Gligorić August 20, 2020

The month of August has become known as the "Women in Translation Month", dedicated to reading and promoting mesmerizing works that were written by women, and translated into other languages.…

Inwardness Turned Outwards: Tools for Extinction

By Sanja Gligorić June 15, 2020

Tools for Extinction is a collection of short fiction and non-fiction that was envisaged and published as a response to the period of social distancing and illness caused by the…

Elastic Love: A Review of Johanne Bille’s Elastic

By Sanja Gligorić March 14, 2020

Johanne Bille is a Danish author who belongs to the arena of important contemporary voices who have attempted to capture the complexity of modern love, and have masterfully succeeded in…

Remembering Toni Morrison and James Baldwin: The Grandeur of The Bluest Eye and The Fire Next Time

By Sanja Gligorić January 20, 2020

Toni Morrison and James Baldwin have provided us with some of the most important works when it comes to African-American literature. When Morrison passed away in August 2019, a myriad…

I Dare You To Breathe: Maggie O’Farrell’s Memoir “I Am, I Am, I Am”

By Sanja Gligorić October 17, 2018

From our earliest days, most of us fear death and learn to regard it as an unwelcomed guest, an entity to be avoided at all costs. And yet, there are…