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San Francisco. Two Lines Press. 2024. 120 pages.
A leaf’s rustling. Branches mingling. In the distance, lightning strikes. Whispers. A felled log. A milkless breast. Dogs. Generations…
Ellen Elias-Bursać
Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2024. 133 pages. The groundbreaking novels and incisive cultural critiques of Dubravka Ugrešić have won major prizes in eastern Europe and the West (…
New York. Seven Stories Press. 2021. 240 pages. IN HER NATIVE Croatia, Ivana Bodrožić is controversial. While internally displaced as a nine-year-old at the beginning of the civil war…
New York. Open Letter. 2020. 234 pages. QUITE SIMPLY, IT IS DIFFICULT to decide where to begin with Dubravka Ugrešić’s The Age of Skin since there’s not one, but a multitude…
Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2018. 308 pages. Neustadt Prize winner Dubravka Ugrešić’s latest historiographic metafiction bears her trademark erudition, wit, and nuanced cultural critiques. The f…
October 23, 2017Photo by DeusXFlorida / Flickr Thanks to the marketplace and the “culture of consensus,” writes 2016 Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić, “art has become our favorite theme park.”…
Victoria, Texas. Dalkey Archive Press. 2017. 204 pages. Vedrana Rudan’s new provocatrice, Tilda (unnamed until the penultimate chapter), recalls the protagonist of her first novel, Night, bot…
Dubravka Ugrešić delivered her 2016 Neustadt keynote lecture to hundreds of high school and college students in Norman, Oklahoma. After watching the world premiere of the staged adaptati…
Made of iron, this scold’s bridle from Belgium dates from the 16th or 17th century. The strut of metal that went into the wearer’s mouth to hold down her tongue has broken off. If there’…
