Czech writer Anna Cima’s debut novel Probudím se na Šibuji (I Wake Up in Shibuya) is a hip, vibrant story of youth, and a “tale of two cities,” connecting Prague and Tokyo across time. It is also an ...

It’s March 14, 1939. In a small town called Mistek in north-eastern Moravia, a region of Czechoslovakia, an 11-year-old girl is looking out the bay window of her family’s apartment at Prokop’s ...

Today on the Book Show, the man who made modern Czech writing accessible to an English-speaking audience. Paul Wilson speaks to Ramona Koval at the recent Blue Metropolis Literary Festival about the ...

“Poets are the antennae of the race,” declared the American poet Ezra Pound more than 50 years ago, a statement that optimists – and poets – still hold to be true. But the Internet age has caused a ...