Ladislav Grosman's powerful story of a twelve-year-old Jewish boy in wartime Slovakia smuggled in...

Sometimes called the Czech Bukowski, and more widely known by the epithet 'Magor' (which translat...

Analyzes the historical significance of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

This collection of Cold War essays and reflections enthralls any reader seeking a pointed dissect...

A new translation of Egon Bondy's classic critique and parody of Communist Czechoslovakia.

The perfect culture guide for the curious traveler or medieval history enthusiast.

The first sustained cultural analysis of Russia at war that reveals how art, artists, and institu...

It's 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization,...

Most, one of the most impressive historical cities of Northern Bohemia, was destroyed in the sixt...

For The Pied Piper, Czech writer Viktor Dyk found his muse in the much retold medieval Saxon lege...

In Fragments of Lives, Gulag survivor Jacques Rossi opens a window onto everyday life inside the ...

Hrabal s books are distinctive witness to the life of ordinary people only at first glance. In th...