27.04.2023.
How one man's road to Wembley went through Egypt, East Africa and beyond
17.12.2022.
An emerging group of writers are providing Croatian literature with a disturbing new flavour
The best books from Southeastern Europe in English translation in 2022
David Bowie's performance of Starman on BBC's Top of the Pops in July 1972 is one of the most mythologized four minutes in the history of British television.
10.07.2022.
A journey through the career of Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan, winner of this year's EBRD Literature Prize.
06.07.2021.
It wouldn’t be a seaside town if it didn’t have a dark side
Felix Salten, Bambi the Deer, and Twentieth-Century Vienna
26.05.2021.
Dominique Kirchner Reill’s new book The Fiume Crisis takes an iconoclastic new look at the history of Rijeka after World War I
It is forty years since Andrzej Wajda’s epoch-defining Man of Iron walked away with the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
17.12.2020.
Eight books that made a difference in 2020.
A short story by Jurica Pavičić
Komeda: A Private Life in Jazz by Magdalena Grzebałkowska tells the story of Poland’s most talented musician of the jazz generation, and reveals what exactly jazz meant to a Polish society in the throes of rapid change.
27.10.2020.
Marko Tomaš reflects on autumn, Split, and the fate of the independent bookshop
14.10.2020.
With the late Bekim Sejranović’s award-winning novel From Nowhere to Nowhere appearing in English for the first time, we look back at the career of an extravagantly talented writer
Marc Casals takes a look at Mirko Kovač‘s novel The City in the Mirror, a classic of post-Yugoslav literature that is yet to appear in English translation
17.06.2020.
A short story by Maša Kolanović
Central Europe, Milan Kundera and Yugoslavia
Croatian journalist Adriana Piteša interviewed the Nobel Prize-winning novelist shortly before his death in 2010. He didn’t pull any punches.
Višnja Vukašinović looks back at a classic modernist novel about holidays gone horribly wrong
11.05.2020.
Shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1980, Tarkovsky’s meditative masterpiece continues to cast its spell
13.12.2019.
2019 in eight books
06.09.2019.
Was the Italian soldier-poet a liberator? Or a warning of the dark times to come?
If London had been the birthplace of punk, northern England had become the incubator of whatever it was that was about to happen next.
16.06.2019.
In May 1996 I had the good fortune to interview Cure frontman Robert Smith. And then, with the interview still untranscribed, I lost the tape. It took me 23 years to find out what on earth I had done with it.
12.09.2018.
Miroslav Krleža’s masterpiece of mid-Twenties reportage is a compelling hybrid of travelogue, personal memoir and political essay
11.09.2018.
Marinetti, World War I, and why he ended up in Rijeka in 1919
27.10.2017.
The time is ripe for Croatia to regain its rightful place on the European horror map
05.01.2017.
Why we should be rereading Joseph Roth in 2017
14.12.2016.
So what is it that makes Vienna the capital of sex?
25.11.2016.
Is Milan Manojlović Mance’s Man from Katanga the greatest Croatian album ever made?
25.4.2016.
Few graphic artists are as closely associated with the Zagreb urban landscape as illustrator, poster designer and graphic novelist Igor Hofbauer.
16.3.2016.
Outside Czech-speaking circles, underground writer and philosopher Egon Bondy remains almost unknown; however it’s hard to see where the Czech literary scene would be without him
15.3.2016.
The story of Marta Kubišová’s song A Prayer for Marta reveals much about the power of popular culture - and the desire of those in government to place it under control.
10.3.2016.
The time is ripe for a rereading of Gregor von Rezzori, one of Central Europe’s most distinctive voices
15.6.2015.
The German author of Storm of Steel was the greatest writer to come out of the trenches of World War I. It’s almost exactly a century since he first saw front-line action.
