She got caught up in a conversation by the dumpsters. With an older, but better-looking woman than herself. They each took out the trash with similar frequency, so Pipina thought s
Part I: The Brief and Extreme Loneliness of Jozef K Let’s call him Karsten, it’s one of those stupid, unreal sounding names. The two drubbers or hand rubbers, who c
The Night Circus and Other Stories is the second work by Uršuľa Kovalyk to appear in English, following her novel The Equestrienne (2016). The fifteen stories fuse tragedy and ab
Balla’s Big Love is a short novel about the stress of living under capitalism. Apparently an autobiographical work (according to the introduction, but one should always take such
Ivana Dobrakovová has been labelled an ‘expat writer’ because her stories often explore the experience of living abroad. She resides in Turin and is a talented translator of F
These are very intimate poems; reading them is like peeping into somebody’s private space or spying between the pages of a diary that was written only for the author herself. The
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Most introductions to contemporary Slovak literature start with a familiar moan: it is not well known abroad (a predicament it shares with many other ‘lesser literatures’); not
