November-December, 2012
Why Did She Come?
I used to think there was a lot of evil in the world, for although I am the most tender [...]
Simplicity
behind autumn’s rusty pleasure and the leaky old rowboat that is hauled out of the river year after year, a [...]
A Nicer Ending
(Excerpt from the novel)I 1. I'm sitting in the old cottage on my grandpa’s “ranch”. The night had barged into [...]
Two Short Stories
Translated by Jason BlakeRadio was especially important during real socialism. It was the only instrument that let one come into [...]
Monet’s Haystacks: Situated Knowledge, Creation, and Revolution
Between 1890 and 1891 Claude Monet painted a series of twenty five paintings depicting haystacks near his home in Giverny. [...]
Finding Freedom, Understanding Necessity
– On expressions of freedom in the performance Per Gint in Serbia, Užice, 2000 –This paper investigates how desire for [...]
A Post-Modern Approach: Literature and Memoirs as Memory and Archive
I Almost a hundred and seventy years ago, the “dialectical lyricist”, Danish philosopher Sören Kierkegaard (1813-1855), speaking of his own [...]
Literature as a Hearth-stoning
(Lidija Dimkovska’s A Spare Life, Ili-ili, Skopje 2012)“I did not become a writer. I cannot write even now. Writing is [...]
A Celebration of Life’s Energy
On Vladimir Martinovski’s Before and After the Dance (Skopje, Kliker: 2012)“Dance is celebration, dance is language, a language beyond words.” [...]