Excerpt from THE ORGAN-GRINDER’S MONKEY: CULTURE AFTER THE AVANT-GARDE, published by Litteraria Pragensia. “From two recent novels, a story emerges about the future for the Anglophone novel.” So begins an …

Seems I ought to share my day with you. There are days that just call out for the sharing and this was one of them. We live right in the …

It’s been a mild winter thus far in Prague, but even with overnight temps hovering around six or eight degrees, how many of us would choose to sleep over on …

One of the highlights of 2013 for Equus Press has been the publication of George Bataille’s Louis XXX (trans. Stuart Kendall), a neat little book that holds a multitude, the …

In EXPERIMENTALISM, PART 1, “experiment” was traced back to its etymological connection with “experience” as the process of departing from what has been tested, of gaining knowledge by venturing beyond …

One of the trademarks of “experimental” fiction, both recent and ancient, is its backlash against the label “experimental.” Here, let me settle for only two examples from somewhere in between …

*A review of Thor Garcia’s The News Clown, first published in nthposition. This is a coming of age novel. Its protagonist Thor ascends to manhood not by battling Don Cossacks, …

The outcome of the recent election is not particularly favourable to any of the parties in the Czech Republic. With no clear programme-based majority in the parliament the participants will …

At the third attempt the Czechs finally achieved the impossible: to elect some candidates yet not to elect anyone. Much like God stepping down from Heaven to divert bullets and …

A barefooted Cleo showed up as instructed the next morning at the rat-braining factory outside town. The boss man looked her over and was pleased. Cleo signed the required employment …

The book is going to be published by Equus press. The family dragged its few meager suitcases from the dock down to the poor area, as required by law. Eventually, …

The book is going to be published by Equus press. Times were tough, oh they were hard. The people were poor, afflicted and drug-addicted. The soft piano played. William Blump …

Canicule was recently published by Equus Press. They’ll kill us all. You know what kind of pigs we’re up against. This’s the Auschwitz generation. You can’t argue with people who …

With its Total Information Awareness program, from which came the Prism Program, the United States government still cannot produce incontrovertible or even compelling evidence to justify bombing Syria (in fact, …

According to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the West lacks a consistent strategy towards Syria and the Middle East. With the recent Deutsche Welle interview Brzezinski in essence asks the question – why …

With readings from Louis Armand’s CANICULE—poised between the poetic and perverse–and Thor Garcia’s rags to riches to revolution saga ONLY FOOLS DIE OF HEARTBREAK—a roaring assembly of the insane and …

The media has recently informed about the possible demolition of three buildings. All of these buildings have something in common – their architectural significance and futile attempts to get them …

Danish photographer Jacob Aue Sobol presents his cycle entitled “Arrivals and Departures: Moscow – Ulaanbaatar – Beijing” in Prague’s Leica Gallery. The photographs were taken during his travels on the …

This story was published as a part of the Only fools die of heartbreak collection by Equus Press. Have mercy – please, please, have mercy. Be careful, baby, the bastards …