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Preparing for a Review of David Albahari’s Two New Books in English

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Scott Abbott

I’m just about done with a review I’ve been working on for over a year. Here is how it will begin: Double Consciousness David Albahari Globetrotter Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać Yale, 2014 Learning Cyrillic Translated from the Serbian by Ellen … Continue reading →

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Translated from . . . : Works by Miljenko Jergovic

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Scott Abbott

Five years passed in the blink of an eye. Natasa was in Belgrade, and I was in Sarajevo. The war was raging. The war of my life, the only one I remember and the only one in which it seems … Continue reading →

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Stray Dogs and Stateless Babies

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Scott Abbott

This morning’s New York Times prints (digitally produces?) an essay by Aleksandar Hemon and Jasmin Mujanovic about the current demonstrations in Sarajevo and Tuzla. Here’s how the essay begins: ON National Geographic Traveler Magazine’s Best of the World list this year, … Continue reading →

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