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From A THEORY OF STRANGENESS by Pavla Horáková, translated by Lucie Mikolajková

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1. On Communication, Sloping Streets, and Midlife Crises I looked around the century-old buildings I’d passed on my way to…

From THE LAKE by Bianca Bellová, translated by Julia Sutton-Mattocks

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1. The Egg Stage Nami is dripping with sweat. He clutches his Grandma’s chubby, greasy hands. The waves of the…

#RivetingReviews: Silvia Sovic reviews AVIARIES by Zuzana Brabcová

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‘A day devoted to staying in is the music of a melody nobody has ever played. And when I do…

#RivetingReviews: David Hebblethwaite reviews THE PIED PIPER by Viktor Dyk

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You may think you know the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, but probably not the way Viktor Dyk…

#RivetingReviews: Max Easterman reviews MAYBE WE’RE LEAVING by Jan Balabán

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Jan Balabán is one of the Czech Republic’s foremost writers of the last half-century, but is hardly known in the…

October 2019 #RivetingReviews – Czech Special. Introduction by Michael Tate

Oct 31, 2019 • 1 comment

Welcome to the Czech Special Riveting Reviews, published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the so-called Velvet Revolution in…

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