Memorial to Josef and Karel Čapek

Prague is a city full of stories of artificial human beings, from the Golem, a mud-man devised by the 16th century Rabbi Loew to protect the Jewish community, to the …

Datum publikace:
18. 9. 2016
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Šupich building

The completion in 1891 of the new museum at the top of Wenceslas Square was the crowning achievement of the Czech National Revival, a statement of nationhood that anticipated by …

Datum publikace:
11. 9. 2016
Autor článku:
Alex Went

The passing of Michel Butor

*In order to mark the passing of the great French experimentalist, Equus Press brings a critical overview of Michel Butor’s oeuvre from 1950s to 1970s and its modernist heritage. A …

Datum publikace:
4. 9. 2016
Autor článku:
David Vichnar

Statue of Libuše and Přemysl

In the peaceful grounds of the ancient fort of Vyšehrad stand four monumental statues by Josef Myslbek depicting characters from early Czech mythology. One shows an allegorical couple, ‘Lumír and …

Datum publikace:
28. 8. 2016
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Expo 58 Pavilion

On the eastern slopes of Letná hill, overlooking the Vltava, this unusual modernist structure looks as if it has been teleported from some future time into its present location. In …

Datum publikace:
14. 8. 2016
Autor článku:
Alex Went

Intertextual Ley Lines

Originally published in Subtexts: Essays on Fiction (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2015) 51-63. As Pound noted in his portrait of the artist as an ironic man, the demand of the twelve …

Datum publikace:
7. 8. 2016
Autor článku:
Equus Press

Is this the ultimate ‘Prague Novel’?

“We are living in the Left Bank of the Nineties.” When legendary International Herald Tribune correspondent and founding Prague Post editor Alan Levy wrote these words, about “living in an …

Datum publikace:
31. 7. 2016
Autor článku:
Equus Press

The Prague Moment

There are cities in the world that exercise a particular influence over the minds of writers, artists and historians because they seem to manifest a type of spirit, a genius …

Datum publikace:
24. 7. 2016
Autor článku:
Equus Press

An Aesthete’s Lost War

*Originally published in Avant-Post, ed. Louis Armand (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2006) 85-113. It is a critical commonplace to observe that, following the procession of one ascendant modernist art movement …

Datum publikace:
17. 7. 2016
Autor článku:
Bonita Rhoads

First you lose yourself…

Hot off the press (& to be launched at this year’s Prague Microfestival), in 8 octaves, 64 chapters and on 888 pages, Louis Armand’s The Combinations is a “work of …

Datum publikace:
26. 6. 2016
Autor článku:
David Vichnar

UFOs under the river…

Coming this May in 8 octaves, 64 chapters and on 888 pages, Louis Armand’s The Combinationsis a “work of attempted fiction” that combines the beauty & intellectual exertion that is …

Datum publikace:
19. 6. 2016
Autor článku:
David Vichnar

The “European anti-novel”, Part II

(Part one is here.) Coming this May in 8 octaves, 64 chapters and on 888 pages, Louis Armand’s The Combinations is a “work of attempted fiction” that combines the beauty …

Datum publikace:
12. 6. 2016
Autor článku:
David Vichnar

The “European anti-novel”, Part I

Coming this May in 8 octaves, 64 chapters and on 888 pages, Louis Armand’s The Combinations is a “work of attempted fiction” that combines the beauty & intellectual exertion that …

Datum publikace:
22. 5. 2016
Autor článku:
David Vichnar

Prague Microfestival 2016

The Prague Microfestival is an underground literary festival, bringing the best of the world’s experimental poetry and fiction to a Czech audience. From Friday 13 May to Sunday 15 May, …

Datum publikace:
11. 5. 2016
Autor článku:
Prague Microfestival

Does Free Tuition Work?

In the Czech Republic, education is, for the most part, free. For many students, particularly those in the United States, the idea of attending university tuition-free is a dream. In …

Datum publikace:
2. 5. 2016
Autor článku:
Matthew Dickanson

What’s in a name?

It’s official. The new name for our beloved Czech Republic is….”Czechia.” This linguistic deformity has succeeded in one thing – in unifying Czechs like nothing else before. Everyone hates it. …

Datum publikace:
25. 4. 2016
Autor článku:
Martin Jan Stránský

The Death of the Swans

The three day visit (March 28-30, 2016) to Prague by Chinese President Xi Jinping was revealing in the worst manner. The visit – set up previously by current PM Bohuslav …

Datum publikace:
5. 4. 2016
Autor článku:
Martin Jan Stránský

Radiantly Splattered, Part 2

“A BOAT RIDE OVER THE NIAGARA” Second through Brain appeared in 1920 at the Steegemann publishing house, in the dada series called “Die Silbergäule” (“The Silverhorse,” also obliquely invoked in …

Datum publikace:
3. 4. 2016
Autor článku:
Equus Press

Like Shards of Glass…

Second Through Brain is a curious book. It appears that the ambitions of its author, Melchior Vischer, aim to portray the very extent of human existence through its protagonist Jorg …

Datum publikace:
20. 3. 2016
Autor článku:
Mark O’Leary