My review of Derek Sayer’s Postcards from Absurdistan, his wide-ranging yet highly uneven account of 20th century Czech culture and the political storms it went through, has been published on Transitions Online. The book covers some very interesting, lesser-known writers, artists and architects as they navigated their way, personally and artistically, through independence, fascism, communism […]
“…When I got off the plane and into the taxi all I had wanted to do was get to my hotel and into bed. Now all I cared about was out-imagining my adversary, just finding that one blank spot on the map. I had become that deranged explorer willing to sacrifice everything to find El […]
“On the windowsill lay the manuscript, a rectangular-shaped embodiment of her guilty conscience. The languishing strength of the early winter sun sent a shudder down Nóra’s spine. Her attempt at making an airplane resulted in a hat.” – from “Chinese Snow” by Miklós Vámos, translated from Hungarian by Ági Bori. Read more of the Spring […]
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