John K. Cox

John K. Cox is professor and department head in history at North Dakota State University in Fargo. He received his undergraduate degree from Guilford College and earned his doctorate at Indiana University. The History of Serbia (2002), Slovenia: Evolving Loyalties (2005), and translations of novels by Danilo Kiš and Ivan Cankar are among his chief publications.

Dogs and Others by Biljana Jovanović

By Biljana Jovanović

Summer 2019
Biljana Jovanović

London. Istros Books. 2019. 189 pages. A cult figure when Dogs appeared in Serbia in 1980, dead at forty-three in 1996, Biljana Jovanović today commands widespread respect. Yet Dogs ...
Avala Is Falling (an excerpt)

May 21, 2018 | Biljana Jovanović

Courtesy of Pixabay Translator’s note: Biljana Jovanović (1953–96) is a largely untranslated but highly regarded Serbian feminist writer. Jovanović was a Serbian intellectual who grew up...
But It Was Beautiful

By Erwin Koch

March 2011
Erwin Koch

The landscape of southern AlbaniaPhoto (c) 2006 by John K. Cox Since the end of communism and the revival of old customs and compulsions, ten thousand people have died from blood f...