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 ...

The Communist regimes of Europe collapsed more than a quarter century ago, and the Third Reich fe...

Dealing with not only specific artists in the context of their national identity, but also with o...

The history, origins and development of the government and state as an institution is an essentia...

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

This publication, written by Czech professor of art history Jan Royt, renders a vivid image of th...

'Glimmers in anticipation of Hrabal's later virtuosity.'--New Yorker

Josef Safařík's Seven Letters to Melin is an exploration of man's alienation from nature--and fro...

A collection of seven short stories about wierd and fantastic creatures that inhabit the strange ...

Since its birth as a city, Prague's appearance, character, and life have been shaped by the River...

A famous Czech humoristic novel depicting adventures of five boys from a small Czech town in the ...

Summer of Caprice, a captivating comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech liter...

Written in the years 1954-57 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia's postw...

'Summer of Caprice,' a winning comic novel first published in 1926, is a classic of Czech writing...

Novelist Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia and spent decades working at a...

The first publication of a charming fieldwork memoir by a giant of legal anthropology.

Prague has been a center of university education for centuries, and in this book, Josef Petráň an...

This new edition celebrates the stunning examples of art nouveau art and architecture on display ...

At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and first Habsburg rulers sat on Prague'...

Ladislav Fuks is an outstanding Czech writer, whose works primarily consist of psychological fict...

A collection of short stories by Czech women from the turn of the twentieth century.

Springtide

Written by a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, The Shop on Main Street is the story that inspired...

A favorite work of Czech humor, We Were a Handful depicts the adventures of five boys from a smal...

In 1922, the same year that saw the establishment of the Czechoslovak Football Association, a for...

Compassion, levity, and laughter can be found in the darkest of places--and even in the smallest ...

Jaroslav Hasek is a Czech writer most famous for his wickedly funny, widely read, yet incomplete ...

Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as 'one of the great prose stylists o...

In honor of the 2018 centennial of Czech independence, philosopher of law Jiří Přibán and award-w...

This is the first major analytical study in English of the work of the leading Czech Avant-garde ...

This is a book about collective guilt, individual fate, and repentance, a tale that explores how ...

The first English-language translation of a classic Czech antiwar novel written in the wake of WWI.

Thought necessarily reflects the times. Following the tragedy of the Holocaust, this fact became ...

A paranoid thriller of life under surveillance in Soviet Czechoslovakia.  A deputy minister in th...

A famed essay examines the Velvet Revolution from a sociological perspective.

A vision of late-twentieth-century Prague from an acclaimed Czech novelist.

An inclusive collection of modern Czech short fiction that features overlooked women writers.

A new edition of a classic of Czech literature and literary comedy.