Issue 2 · Sarajevo
- Editor’s Note
Another Jerusalem
“To live in cities like Sarajevo and Jerusalem is a full-time job.”
- Essay
Sarajevo Is…
by Aleksandar Hemon
“The lights that glint on the hills around Sarajevo at night, like stars that fall slowly, the way snowflakes do.”
- Interview
A Conversation with Jakob Finci
“The Serbs, Croats, and Muslims each decided that they were the best friends of the Jews.”
- Interview
Exodus of a City
by Dzevad Karahasan
“Does Sarajevo, as I know it and love it, no longer exist?”
- Fiction
A Khazar Tale
by Muharem Bazdulj
“God picked Abraham’s descendants as his ‘chosen people.’ The Khazars chose to become this themselves.”
- Memoir
Džidžikovac Childhood
by Courtney Angela Brkic
“My father has no memories before Sarajevo, as if the very first time he opened his eyes he did so in that city.”
- Fiction
Elijah’s Chair: A Novel (excerpts)
by Igor Štiks
“Cities inscribe their history on walls and in objects, not in the unreliable and corrupt memories of their citizens.”
- Poetry
Those Who Cross
by Abdullah Sidran
- Report
On the Trail of the Sarajevo Haggadah
by Edward Serotta
“Why is this haggadah different from all other haggadahs?”
- Essay
Sarajevo for Beginners
by Ozren Kebo
“Men and women walk through the streets under siege wearing clean, un-ironed shirts.”
- Fiction
Black Sandals and Other Stories
by Semezdin Mehmedinović
“He did not choose to be transported across the ocean to another life, to be relocated to 16th Street, or to be employed in a Cadillac showroom.”
- Portfolio
Simon Norfolk: Bleed
“These are places with terrible stories, but they are extraordinarily beautiful.”
- Fiction
My Grandpa Tito
by Goran Simic
“My father could have simply built a boat and come back. But he didn’t.”
- Poetry
Morning Glory, Sarajevo
by Ferida Duraković
- Memoir
A Week in Sarajevo, 1996
by Chris Agee
“A soldier shot me a disapproving glance. I agreed: he was entitled to his animosity.”
- Poetry
Girl in a White Linen Dress
by Vojka Smiljanic-Djikic
- Essay
Zeljo
by Aleksandar Hemon
“Football is not a metaphor for life, but life itself, in its purest form.”
- Interview
A Conversation with David Rieff
“Genocide will happen again—it’s part of the barbarism of our nature.”
