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  • A scene from 'WR: Mysteries of the Organism' (1971)
    A scene from 'WR: Mysteries of the Organism' (1971)
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    The Rootless Cosmopolitan Who Mocked Totalitarian Consciousness

    What the late Yugoslav filmmaker Dušan Makavejev contributed to Greenwich Village’s life-affirming anti-authoritarian counterculture

    byJ. Hoberman
  • A Jewish woman wears a star on the street in Zagreb, June 30, 1941.(AP)
    A Jewish woman wears a star on the street in Zagreb, June 30, 1941.(AP)
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    One of the Most Remarkable Books About the Holocaust Was Just Published

    In Slavko Goldstein’s newly translated ‘1941,’ Nazi-backed fascists tear through the Balkans. Yugoslavia never recovered.

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Danilo Kiš in Paris, 1982.(Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Corbis)
    Danilo Kiš in Paris, 1982.(Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Corbis)
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    Serbia’s Holocaust Memorist

    Danilo Kiš’s fiction, newly translated, mined the Shoah with a Borgesian sense of mystery

    byJacob Silverman
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    La Nona Kanta

    Flory Jagoda sings the songs of her great-great-great-great-great grandparents

    byJulie Subrin
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