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Born into a Serbian-Sephardic family in German-occupied Belgrade, I imbibed the memories of my maternal family, Sephardic Jews from Sarajevo, and especially of my aunt Laura Papo Bohoreta, one of the first feminists in the Balkans and a chronicler of female Sephardic life at the turn of the twentieth century. With the success of my Balkan trilogies, which connect the two most important centers of Sephardic life in the Balkans, Belgrade and Sarajevo, I brought Sephardic history and culture and their place in Balkan memory, from the late seventeenth century up to the 1990s, to a very wide public., Nothing exists without the story. Il faut que le roman raconte, the novel has to tell the story, says Stendhal. Not to mention Scheherazade. I started writing, or writing down [...]

Christopher Isherwood made an enduring habit of mining his life for his art. Many of his characters have real-life counterparts, and the protagonist of his third novel, Mr Norris Changes [...]

Looking at the obituaries of the seventy-seven people who were killed in the terrorist attacks in Oslo and on the island of Utoya (22 July 2011), I am struck by [...]

The novel attempts to create meaning on this side of language. How can it do this when it has nothing but language itself. First, language itself was born of a [...]

When it was agreed in October 2001 that I would write the biography that became No Fretful Sleeper: A Ufe of Will Pearson, the urgent priority was making the most [...]

Despite JANE AUSTEN'S impassioned defense of novel reading in Northanger Abbey, few modern readers are willing to labor through all seven novels recommended by Isabella Thorpe, even though she assures [...]

ERIC JOURDAN'S Les mauvais anges, or Wicked Angels, was banned in France shortly after its publication in 1955, and the ban was only lifted thirty years later. The story of [...]

THE MOST consequential literary dinner of the English fin de siecle took place at the Langham Hotel in London in late August 1889, attended by Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan [...]

DAVID PLANTE is an Anglo-American writer who is perhaps best known for a trilogy of autobiographical novels--The Family, The Wood, and The Country--that were joined together in a 1983 edition [...]

A modern descendent of Mr. Bennet, savoring the delights of Mr. Collins's rhetoric, might well react to his favorite term for Lady Catherine de Bourgh's kindness, condescension, with some uncertainty. [...]

It is no hyperbole to emphasize that everyone has something to say and likely strong opinions about food. In reading for and researching the topic of this study--novels built on [...]

CHINA MAY SEEM to be a special case when it comes to the reception of Jane Austen; it was, as Dr. Zhang has pointed out in his essay in this [...]

JANE AUSTEN has been one of the most widely read writers in English for nearly two centuries, but she remained completely unknown to Chinese readers for more than one hundred [...]

This article will show that, contrary to Jan Koplowitz' novel that traces the history of a Jewish family from Bohemia through the first half of the twentieth century, Horst Seemann's [...]

ABSTRACT Recent articles have called for postcolonial and ecology-minded criticism to engage with each other, suggesting, too, some of the points of difficulty they might encounter when they do. One [...]

SITTING ON THE rooftop restaurant of the fictional Drayton Hotel in Chicago, Irene Redfield, the occasional 'passer' and protagonist of Nella Larsen's Passing, is suddenly swept with panic when she [...]

According to Judith Butler, gender may be understood as a performance, as 'a kind of persistent impersonation which passes as the real.' The genders masculine and feminine are for her [...]

The first volume of the Balkan Trilogy, OliviaManning's novelized account of her youthful marriage in Eastern Europe, opens in late 1939. Harriet Pringle has come to Bucharest with her husband, [...]