Most introductions to contemporary Slovak literature start with a familiar moan: it is not well known abroad (a predicament it…

October 2019 – Slovakia
The Night Circus and Other Stories is the second work by Uršuľa Kovalyk to appear in English, following her novel…
Balla’s Big Love is a short novel about the stress of living under capitalism. Apparently an autobiographical work (according to…
Ivana Dobrakovová has been labelled an ‘expat writer’ because her stories often explore the experience of living abroad. She resides…
These are very intimate poems; reading them is like peeping into somebody’s private space or spying between the pages of…
‘All that’s left is how to choose the most aesthetic suicide: marriage + 9 to 5 office job, or a…