“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” Anais Nin This thought has been with me for several years now. I first...

Testicles are a national symbol, a trademark of the race; other peoples have luck, tradition, erudition, history, reason— but we alone...

We were invited to dinner at an old French restaurant in Boston to meet with a group of Slavists who were in town for their annual...

- How old were you in the war? - Oh, ok! Then you don’t remember much of it! A person who assumes what my memories might be is not worth...

My uncle had another episode, as my aunt calls it. He returned home after three days of drinking, his car lost, no memory of where his...

Mother Tongue cherishes language as the one home that can never be taken away from us. It portrays one family's struggle to protect and...

How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone is a beautiful chaos of characters, stories, lists, jokes, songs, and poems. The novel follows...

Hotel Moscow is conveniently located on the intersection of the two main streets in the city center of Belgrade. I sat in the garden,...

Imagining the Balkans is truly an iconic book, and one that should be read by anyone interested in the Balkans. However, I must say right...

Hi and welcome! It is very exciting to be embarking on this journey through the Balkans via books! These are the first twenty books that...

Abstract: During the “migration crisis” Serbia has been a transit country. However, several thousands of migrants and refugees remained...