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The Chaos of Being Alive in Ali Smith’s The Accidental

By Sanja Gligorić August 2, 2016

Reading The Accidental resembles the way raindrops are traced on a windowpane. Firstly, you notice they move independently, without any rules. They make their way slowly, curving as they please…

In the Mists of Memory: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

By Ljubica Samardžić June 9, 2016

Sometimes I picture memory as a sort of mental container in which one's experiences, conveniently labelled school, family vacations, UFO etc., can be compressed with a view to having something…

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…

Zadie Smith’s NW : A swan of a novel

By Sanja Gligorić February 23, 2016

Zadie Smith has stated on various occasions that she considers herself to belong to the arena of obsessively local writers, inhabited by authors such as Hardy and Hornby. Her book…

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…

You haven’t been Burnsided yet? Review of The Dumb House

By Sanja Gligorić November 24, 2015

Reading The Dumb House, a novel written by the Scottish author John Burnside, is a Schrödinger's cat situation: two mutually exclusive interpretations sit together without cancelling each other out. On…