"Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology.""But what does she have to do with a writer's journey to Bulgaria in 2007 on behalf o
Hurtling between Weltschmerz and wit, drollness and diatribe, entropy and enchantment, it’s the juxtaposition at the heart of Dubravka Ugresic’s writings that saw Ruth Franklin dub her “the fantasy cultural studies professor you never had.” In Eur
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender—by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic—begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed beside his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects—a cigarette l
In this collection of acerbic essays, Ugresic dissects the nature of the contemporary book industry, which she argues is so infected with the need to create and promote literature that will appeal to the masses — literally to everyone — that if Thomas
A gritty, breakneck debut novel by a popular Croatian writer of the country’s “lost generation”Dada’s life is at a standstill in Zagreb—she’s sleeping with a married man, working a dead-end job, and even the parties have started to feel exhaus
U ljeto 1991. devetogodišnja djevojčica odlazi iz Vukovara, ostavljajući roditelje u gradu u kojem počinje rat. Roman Hotel Zagorje priča je o njezinu odrastanju tijekom sedam godina prognaništva, o neprekidnoj borbi za nekoliko kvadrata u kojima ć
A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjevic. In six chapters t
