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Serbia

And What If Love Is Stronger? The Queer Issue
By Susan Harris
In this troubling context, the need for portrayals of queer lives around the world becomes even more urgent.
Brother
By David Albahari
“Damned parents,” he said in a soft voice, “look what they’ve made of me.”
Translated from Serbian by Ellen Elias-Bursać
Lida, Danilo, and the Others
By Biljana Jovanović
Because of all that, I only rode buses that were almost empty.
Translated from Serbian by John K. Cox
The Seed of Evil: Sarajevo 1995
By Sonia Ristic
You don’t become a war correspondent by accident or by chance.
Translated from French by Paul Romano
Multilingual
From “What are the Blind Men Dreaming?”
By Noemi Jaffe
The compassionate understand pain, but pain cannot be understood; those who suffer understand nothing.
Translated from Portuguese and Serbian by Julia Sanches & Ellen Elias-Bursać
The Death of My Parents in the Village
By Dragoslava Barzut
Funeral paid for by the daughter, a lesbian.
Translated from Serbian by Paula Gordon
Multilingual
Boutique Cinderella
By Milica Miçiç Dimovska
She pulled on the dress playfully and it stirred there in the mirror, as if twitching with fright.
Translated from Serbian by Sibelan Forrester
The Cover
By Dejana Dimitrijević
The Cover looks as if it’s alive. It moves and wriggles in Smilja’s hands.
Translated from Serbian by Alice Copple-Tosiç
The Island
By Violeta Ivković
A Christmas tree doesn’t go walking around on its own.
Translated from Serbian by Alice Copple-Tosiç
Head Weight
By David Albahari
In all honesty, Ruben was at a loss to explain what was happening to him.
Translated from Serbian by Ellen Elias-Bursać
Sentimental Education
By Zoran Živkoviç
Nothing moved, like in a movie still.
Translated from Serbian by Alice Copple-Tosiç
The Model
By Danilo Kiš
And there she stood, with all her limbs exposed, wearing only a slip.
Translated from Serbian by John K. Cox
The Robot
By Danilo Kiš
No one was surprised by his arrival.
Translated from Serbian by John K. Cox
Learning Cyrillic
By David Albahari
Fridays I go to church. I do not go to pray.
Translated from Serbian by Ellen Elias-Bursać
An Austro-Hungarian Guidebook
By Milica Miçiç Dimovska
Energy and resourcefulness. These virtues have excited me lately, sending me into a pathological rapture, duping me into rashness and loss of self-respect
Translated from Serbian by Sibelan Forrester
A Kiss
By Ioan Flora
On the intergalactic station Malmorius, Jaspar the Terriblefeverishly prepares for the decisive attack.Who knows where in the Central Desert of Athyria, Commander Z.checks the converters one by one, the…
Translated from Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin & Alina Carac
Games on the Banks of the Danube
By Ivan Ivanji
My parents, who had been so inept as to be Jews, were already under arrest by then.
Translated from German by John K. Cox