The Shadow Self of Domestic Stories: A Reading List of Novels Set in Hotels

The Shadow Self of Domestic Stories: A Reading List of Novels Set in Hotels

Maria Hummel Recommends Karen Tei Yamashita, Cristina García, Bohumil Hrabal, and More

By Maria Hummel | January 10, 2024

The Excruciating Decision to<br> End a Cat’s Life

The Excruciating Decision to
End a Cat’s Life

Martha Cooley on Bohumil Hrabal, Stevie Smith, and the
Death of Her Cat Zora

By Martha Cooley | April 21, 2021

Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn't Stop

Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn't Stop

The Czech Writer Remembers What It Was to
Fall in Love with Literature

By Bohumil Hrabal | December 6, 2019

Here are the 5 books you should read this week.

Here are the 5 books you should read this week.

By Katie Yee | November 26, 2019

Of Bohumil Hrabal's Six Loves, Guess How Many Were Cats?

Of Bohumil Hrabal's Six Loves, Guess How Many Were Cats?

The Answer is Almost All of Them

By Bohumil Hrabal | November 26, 2019

Good Sentences Are Why <br>We Read

Good Sentences Are Why
We Read

Joe Moran (and Other Writers) on the Basic Building Blocks of Writing

By Joe Moran | August 30, 2019

Best Reviewed
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  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Remembering the Lessons of Kundera and Hrabal's Czechoslovakia

By Nathan Scott McNamara | December 16, 2016

Bohumil Hrabal: Of Beer, Whores, and Samizdat

By Joshua Cohen | June 30, 2015

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