About the author Stephanie Scerra, Taylor Fleming, Lisa Han, Ariel Smallwood, Adrienne Zulueta

About the author Stephanie Scerra, Taylor Fleming, Lisa Han, Ariel Smallwood, Adrienne Zulueta

On March 23, 2009 at 2:54 pm a woman who had just given birth to a baby boy sent the following text message to a help line: “Please, is there …

Jan Švejnar is a leading economist, specializing in developing countries and employment transformation, and the founder of the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education at Charles University. He served …

Like sophomores cramming before a final, the Eurozone leaders who met in Brussels last December pulled an all-nighter. Their final exam was a real-world project: restore investor confidence in the …

Nurturing home-grown, grass-roots screenwriting talent is essential for the future success of the Czech film industry, according to award-winning producer, Adam Dvořák. Speaking about the success of the recent historical …

For some time now there have been protests among scholars and students at public universities in the Czech Republic. The protesters aim to force the Minister of Education, Pavel Dobeš, …

About the author Masha Volynsky, Lisa Han, Taylor Fleming, Stephanie Scerra, Adrienne Zuluetta

Among various possible forms of oblivion there is one that I would qualify as significant for our current purposes and that is beginning, or rebeginning. In the context of the …

Reports from foreigners living in Prague list a number of woes in regard to Czechs’ unwelcoming behavior: the service in restaurants is terrible, nobody speaks English, if the locals even …

The Czech version of Tomáš Sedláček’s Economics of Good and Evil was published in 2009. The first edition disappeared from the shelves in just two weeks. In its first year …

For a few years, the sun was shining on the Czech Republic’s alternative energy industry. From 2009 to 2010, the world watched as the small Central European country rose from …

The communists emerged as the second most powerful party after the Czech regional elections. They are closing on the Social Democrats. And the Civic Democrats, occupying the third position, have …

The Brain Harvest by Ken Nash has been published by Equus Press. I’m pretty used to telling this story now. Not a week goes by when someone doesn’t see my …

Armand has written a perfect modern noir, presenting Kafka’s Prague as a bleak, monochrome singularity of darkness, despair and edgy, dry existentialist hardboil. From the off it reeks with sour …