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This Sunday at 1pm I will be moderating a panel on Slovak literature at Prague Book World featuring Julia Sherwood, Rajendra Chitnis, Ivana Taranenková and Peter Darovec. We’ll be discussing Karolinum’s two latest Slovak novels among a variety of topics. I hope to see you there. More info here

Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life by Josef Jedlička, written between 1954 and 1957, might seem, on the surface, like a novel an English-language reader has some experience of. After all, Kundera and Hrabal have written of the Stalinist 50s – (Hrabal-readers most recently being granted access to his short stories from the 50s […]