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Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureAs with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its surface, the book is an conversation with the literary critic Merima Omeragić, covering topics such as "Women and the Male Perspective, " "The Culture of (Self)Harm, " and "The Melancholy of Vanishing." But the book is more than a simple interview: It's a roadmap of th...

The Culture of Lies is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history. It shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic ideology permeates every pore of life. Ugre?ic's acerbic and penetrating essays cover everything from politics to daily routine, from public to private life. With a diverse and unusual perspective, she writes about memory, soap operas, the destruction of e...

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The Museum of Unconditional Surrender―by the renowned Yugoslavian writer Dubravka Ugresic―begins in the Berlin Zoo, with the contents of Roland the Walrus's stomach displayed beside his pool (Roland died in August, 1961). These objects―a cigarette lighter, lollipop sticks, a beer-bottle opener, etc.―like the fictional pieces of the novel itself, are seemingly random at first, but eventually coalesce, meaningfully and poetically. Written in a v...

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PERENNIAL POSSIBLE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: Ugresic is always in the mix for the Nobel Prize—it's just a matter of time. CULT FAVORITE: The novella "Steffie Cvek in the Jaws of Life" was made into a movie in Croatia and truly launched Ugresic's career. AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS: After Ugresic left Dalkey Archive for Open Letter, this book has languished and was one of the only works of her fiction that wasn't readily available.

A blistering, laugh out loud takedown of every aspect of the book industry-from editors to agents to booksellers to best-selling celebs

From one of Europe's premier essayists and cultural critics, a new collection about our troubling political times

A fictional "dictionary" contrasting the barbarism of Balkan politics with the shallowness of America's cultural obsessions.

First new novel in almost a decade from one of Europe's most inventive, boundary-pushing, feminist authors.

De vos staat in vele culturen voor slimheid en verraad. Het is een eenzaam schepsel dat houdt van verlaten plekken. De vos is zo bij uitstek geschikt als godheid voor de schrijver, die verhalen vindt door in andermans gedaante te kruipen en zich met een verhalenbuit terug te trekken. Deze schrandere en speelse roman volgt de vos in al zijn gedaantes van Rusland naar Japan, van Napels naar het platteland van Kroatië. Sommige lezers zullen De vo...

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Ugresic puts one finger on the pulse of an exhausted Europe and another in the wounds of post-industrial America, trawling the fallout of political failure and the detritus of popular culture, expressing anxiety at the disappearance of the future and lack of new utopian visions that have arrived out of the death of communism. 'Ugresic is sharp, funny and unafraid... Orwell would approve.' "Times Literary Supplement".

Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M, clothing at a sweatshop they call the "Ministry." Abandoning literature, Tanja encourages her students to indulge their "Yugonostalgia" in essays about their personal experiences during thei...

Ugresic is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished.'Susan SontagBaba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and eats children. She appears in many forms: as Pupa, a tricksy, cantankerous old woman who keeps her legs tucked into a huge furry boot, as a trio of mischievous elderly women who embark on the trip of a lifetime to a hotel spa, and as a villainous flock of ravens, black hens and magpies infected with the H5...

Die >Kultur der Lüge< entstand als Reaktion auf den Zerfall Jugoslawiens, auf den unseligen Krieg in Kroatien wie in Bosnien. Die Essays sind von äußerster Schärfe, die mit Ironie, Sarkasmus, Satire anprangern - und analysieren -, was in Ex-Jugoslawien geschieht: Aggression gegen den eigenen »Bruder«, künstlich herbeigeführte Amnesie, Rekurs auf nationalfaschistische Ideologien, Propaganda und Zensur, Folklorekitsch als Kultur der Lüge, Schrif...

Finalist for the NBCC Award in Criticism, this collection is riotous, especially the piece about smashing a minibar.

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