Welcome to the Czech Special Riveting Reviews, published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the so-called Velvet Revolution in…
October 2019 – Czech Republic
Networks of various types abound in this complex, densely plotted and intricately symbolic novel. The body of Kryštof Warjak, whose…
‘A day devoted to staying in is the music of a melody nobody has ever played. And when I do…
You may think you know the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, but probably not the way Viktor Dyk…
Jan Balabán is one of the Czech Republic’s foremost writers of the last half-century, but is hardly known in the…
Soon to be available in English for the first time since Czech dissident writer Ludvík Vaculík completed it in 1980,…