Dreamers Rise

The Czech writer Ivan Klíma has died; the New York Times has a full obit . Klíma has long been a favorite writer of mine, and I revisited a...

I found this Canadian edition of Josef Škvorecký's novel about his countryman Antonín Dvořák one afternoon in Kingston, Ontario, and rea...

The Czech writer Ivan Klíma, now in his early eighties, has survived the German occupation of his native land, during which he and his fam...

Above is one of a series of brief animated shorts entitled Legendy Staré Prahy . This one is called "O neviňátkách z židovského hř...

These two postcards were mailed five years apart, the first to an address in Kutná Hora (or Kuttenberg) in Bohemia and the second from Kutn...

I first read this novel in 1993, the year it was published in the US by Knopf, but the copyright date of the Czech edition, Soudce z milosti...

Like Ivan Klíma himself, the narrator of the "The Tightrope Walkers," the fourth and final story in this 1985 collection, has spe...

If someone would like to translate these books for me as a personal favor I'd be really quite grateful. Thanks. Ivan Klíma, My Mad Centu...