In the final edition of Rhythm&Book for this year, we will discuss politics—not just as it plays out in pa...
Renowned Macedonian studies scholar, philologist and translator Borislav Pavlovski has received the 2026 International...
Last night at Crni mačak, we held the fourth Rhythm&Book gathering of the year, featuring our author Goran Pećanac. ...
After the summer break, we’re back at Crni mačak on September 16 at 6 PM, with another one of our authors, for an ev...
“How many creatures walking on this earth / Have their first being in another form?” the Roman poet Ovid asked two thousand years ago. He could not have known the full extent of the truth: today, biologists estimate a stunning three-quarters of all animal species on Earth undergo some form of metamorphosis. But why do tadpoles transform into frogs, caterpillars into butterflies, elvers into eels, immortal jellyfish from sea sprigs to medusae and back again, growing younger and younger in frigid ocean depths? Why must creatures go through massive destruction and remodeling to become who they are? Tracing a path from Aristotle to Darwin to cutting-edge science today, Harman explores that central mystery. Metamorphosis, however, isn’t j...
Ahead of this year’s final Ritam&Knjiga event, which will feature Nikolina Borčić discussing political (im)balances through the books Trump and the Philosophers, The Light that Failed, and her own The Devil Is in the Detail: Discourse and Image in Politics, we have chosen her book as our book of October.
This book is the result of the author’s long-standing academic and professional research into linguistic and communication theories and an analysis of their application in practice. Her primary aim is to encourage the public to discuss the methods and possibilities of creating and managing political image. Encouraging individuals to think critically about political image contributes to higher expectations regarding the quality of public communication in Croatia. Informed citizens recognize not only ambiguous communication and manipulation, but also value content based on verifiable data and results, and consequently set higher standards for politicians in terms of the quality of their communication. In an age marked by a global trend toward the trivialization and spectacularization of politics, this book serves as a reminder of the power of language to shape, but also to deconstruct, political image.
Assoc. Prof. Ivona Čulo, PhD
