Black Lamb and Grey Falcon at 80
Eighty years since its publication, Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia remains the most authoritative (and longest) book of travel writing on that former country. ...
20 Sep 20211h 31min
Robert D. Kaplan: The Ghosts of Balkan Ghosts
Few travel books have had as big a real-world impact as Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert Kaplan. Published in 1993, this account of Kaplan’s travels through Croatia, Kosovo, Macedoni...
6 Sep 202142min
Yugoslav Killer, Qu'est-ce que c'est
Yugoslavia was the most aggressive among socialist countries in using assassinations as a means of protecting the state and the communist party. Over its 45-year existence, the UDBA, the Yugoslav Stat...
23 Aug 20211h 8min
The Great Bosnian Emigration
Bosnians are leaving their country in droves. Why? And what can be done about it? With Samir Beharić, Elma Hodžić, Danijela Majstorović, and Nela Porobić Isaković. Featuring music by Dubioza Kolektiv...
9 Aug 202151min
Svetlana Slapšak: A Yugoslav Dissident
Yugoslavia was a one-party system, and not everyone there liked it. One might get an impression Milovan Djilas was the only Yugoslav dissident. But there were thousands of Yugoslavs who criticized the...
26 Jul 202148min
Toward a Concrete Utopia
From July 2018 to January 2019, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City hosted the exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980. The exhibition introduced socialist Yug...
19 Jul 202158min
Yugosplaining the World
In July 2020, a series of eighteen essays appeared on the Disorder of Things blog under the umbrella title, Yugosplaining the World. The project brought together 30 former Yugoslavs in the West to ref...
5 Jul 202132min
Dream of the Yugoslav '80s
For some two decades now the 1980s have been a rich referential resource for culture-makers across ex-Yugoslavia (and globally, of course). Re-releases and reunion tours. Music echoing the ’80s sound....
21 Jun 20211h 15min
