Dubravka Ugresic, trans. from the Croatian by David Williams. Open Letter (Univ. of Rochester, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (324p) ISBN 978-1-934824-57-3 After her novel Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, Ugresic ...

There is no shortage of American writers and critics bemoaning the depredations wrought by the marketplace on the world of literature. But sometimes, seeing the same problem from a slightly different ...

Dubravka Ugresic does not like karaoke. That doesn’t stop her from trying it, just as her resistance to celebrity doesn’t stop her from putting her head through a cutout on a Hollywood studio tour so ...

In the fairy tale world, it's never a good sign when the old woman arrives. She'll try to shove the children into the oven, or poison the princess, or lock someone away in a tower. Baba Yaga, the ...

Dubravka Ugresic, trans. from the Croatian by David Williams. Open Letter (Univ. of Rochester, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (324p) ISBN 978-1-934824-57-3 After her novel Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, Ugresic ...

Background to Dubravka Ugresic's references: Goli Otok, or Naked Island – high-security, top-secret political prison and labour camp off the Adriatic/ Croatian coast, run by the Federal Socialist ...

On a recent afternoon, I went to see the writer Dubravka Ugresic at an apartment on East Seventy-sixth Street, in Manhattan, which belongs to a friend of hers. Ugresic lives in Amsterdam, but she was ...

http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no13/ugresic.html http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no13/ugresic.html "In the noncommercial East European ...

Editor's note: the event is cancelled until further notice. Part of the ECC2020 Dopolavoro programme, this exhibition by well-known Croatian writer Dubravka Ugrešić is inspired by a collection of ...

The following essay is adapted from Clive James’ Cultural Amnesia, a re-examination of intellectuals, artists, and thinkers who helped shape the 20 th century. Slate is publishing an exclusive ...