I just read about the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the Serbian ethnic cleanser, and my thoughts went back to Yugoslavia, the lost country of my childhood. Of course, everyone's childhood is a sort of lost country, but Yugoslavia literally is: it no longer exists. Serbia, however, exists, as does its and the former Yugoslavia's capital, Belgrade, where I was growing up. But Serbia was never truly my country, because my fat…
SOURCE: John Simon at 09:11PM on June 1, 2011