winter journal Archives

Paul Auster’s Museum of Ordinary

By Sanja Gligorić February 12, 2017

Sunday is a perfect day to pay a visit to Auster’s museum of ordinary where magic lies in the subtlety of one’s observations. It would be good to point out…

Poetry on Big Screen: 12 Movies with Poetic References (Part 2)

By Bojana

Even though often considered a dying art, poetry still has an important place in people’s lives and, by extension, in...

Literary Chic: From a Heroine to a Fashion Icon

By Bojana

Note: This article was originally published in Serbian back in 2016 by our editor Maja Žikić. Literature often treats fashion...

11 Interesting Facts you may not Know About Oscar Wilde

By Katarina Lazić

Besides being one of the most famous English authors, Oscar Wilde was also one of the most intriguing people who...

Writing Hacks: Strange Habits of English and American Authors

By Katarina Lazić

Mark Twain once said: "Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words." But is...

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

By Ljubica Samardžić

Discussions about books and film adaptations always seem to divide people. Book-lovers vs. film-lovers. You feel obligated, as if by...

Five Famous Fiends

By Andrea

Author's note: This list is, of course, completely biased. Where there is light, there must be darkness, and where there...

To Virginia Woolf, who created stars out of waves

By Sanja Gligorić

"The waves showed that uneasiness, like something alive, restive, expecting the whip, of waves before a storm." - Jacob’s Room Where...

If on a winter’s night a traveller you knock on Neil Gaiman’s door

By Sanja Gligorić

Winter is coming, or so they say. Well, I guess that they are right. It is really cold outside these...

Happy birthday, Emily Brontë!

By Milica

On this day in 1818, a renowned British novelist and poet, Emily Brontë was born. To pay homage to Brontë's enormous...

Advice from Maya Angelou

By Maja

"The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you—black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight."

winter journal

Paul Auster’s Museum of Ordinary

Poetry on Big Screen: 12 Movies with Poetic References (Part 2)

Literary Chic: From a Heroine to a Fashion Icon

11 Interesting Facts you may not Know About Oscar Wilde

Writing Hacks: Strange Habits of English and American Authors

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

Five Famous Fiends

To Virginia Woolf, who created stars out of waves

If on a winter’s night a traveller you knock on Neil Gaiman’s door

Happy birthday, Emily Brontë!

Advice from Maya Angelou

Poetry on Big Screen: 12 Movies with Poetic References (Part 2)

Literary Travelogue: An Interview With Jelena Vukicevic (Visibaba)

Rediscovering Freedom with Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing

Culture Is not Cancelled II : Creatives Share Their Inspiration

Immortality of Poetry: A Review of Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Inwardness Turned Outwards: Tools for Extinction

Sontag, Baldwin, hooks: On Reading As a Gateway to Empathy and Love