Aleksandar Hemon

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Aleksandar Hemon’s Kaleidoscopic Fiction July 11, 2023

If Americans remember one thing about Sarajevo, it’s that the city was besieged for almost four years during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. If they know a second thing, it’s that Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated there in ...

Literary Phenom Flames Out March 24, 2023

From its ponderous title to its inane contents, The World and All That It Holds, by the Bosnian American novelist Aleksandar Hemon, is a novel that manages to be disappointing in every possible way. But to be fair to the author, I have to say this is...