Over the past ten years the neglected literary form of the memoir has come to the fore, with both professional writers and non-professionals recalling the past in order to help all of us understand better the context of our times. These works fill the gaps between dates and trends and demographics and economics not with [...]

When the Iron Curtain fell in 1990, former Yugoslavia was engulfed into a bloody warfare that gave us a new phrase: ‘ethnic cleansing.’ Today, Slobodan Milosevic, the former leader of Serbia, is awaiting trial accused of committing crimes against humanity. Several areas of former Yugoslavia are being administered by or have United Nations peacekeeping forces [...]