1. On Communication, Sloping Streets, and Midlife Crises I looked around the century-old buildings I’d passed on my way to work countless times before. Nearly black at the bottom
1. The Egg Stage Nami is dripping with sweat. He clutches his Grandma’s chubby, greasy hands. The waves of the lake slap rhythmically against the concrete jetty. A cry, more a sh
‘A day devoted to staying in is the music of a melody nobody has ever played. And when I do have to go out, there’s a bloom coating the people I pass, a frost blurring their fe
You may think you know the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, but probably not the way Viktor Dyk tells it in this novella (originally serialised in 1911–12). The first chapter
Jan Balabán is one of the Czech Republic’s foremost writers of the last half-century, but is hardly known in the UK; very little of his output – three novels (one graphic), a
Welcome to the Czech Special Riveting Reviews, published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the so-called Velvet Revolution in November 1989 – better known among the w
‘City Sister Silver’, Alex Zucker’s translation of Czech author Jáchym Topol’s debut novel, is featured in the latest “festschrift” from Verbivoracious Press,
