Yugoslavia

What the Deliberate Targeting of Libraries Reveals About the Nature of War

Priscilla Morris on the Burning Books and Besieged City That Inspired Her Novel

 
By Priscilla Morris  August 20, 2024
Poetry

“To Become a Poet is to Step Into the Void.” Brian Henry on Slovenian Poet Tomaž Šalamun

By Literary Hub  May 22, 2024
War

What Fiction Can Reveal About the Fragile Fabric of Our Societies

By Aminatta Forna  January 29, 2024
The Holocaust

Inhabiting the Mind of the Worst Kind of Collaborator: A Nazi Kapo

By David Rieff  September 20, 2021
Otherppl

Vesna Maric on the Freedom of Working Outside Historical Fiction’s Rules

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 10, 2021
The Hub

Kosovo declares Peter Handke “persona non grata” as Nobel controversy continues.

By Corinne Segal  December 12, 2019
Displacement

Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: What It Means to Be Displaced

By Literary Hub  July 1, 2019
Excerpts

Undercover at the Miss Ex-Yugoslavia Pageant

By Sofija Stefanovic  April 17, 2018
Personal Essay

Growing Up a Refugee, Confronting Shame and Sensationalism

By Pajtim Statovci  May 19, 2017
Awards

Dubravka Ugrešić: “Who am I, Where am I, and Whose am I?”

By Literary Hub  November 10, 2016
Essay

How the Yugoslav Wars Shaped a Generation of Writers

By Lidija Dimkovska  October 7, 2016
Translation

10 Books by Women We’d Like to See Translated: Balkan Edition

By Will Firth  May 19, 2016
Excerpts

Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

By Charles Simic  February 16, 2016
News

Zagreb: Dark Heart, Darker Lit

By Ivan Srsen  December 7, 2015
Criticism

Memories of Pan-Yugo Angst

By Sara Nović  May 28, 2015

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