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The book's not a bad read either. www.praguereporter.com/home/2026/7/...

New restoration of Czech cult classic ‘Valerie and Her Week of Wonders’ to compete at Venice film festA newly digitized version of Jaromil Jireš’ cult classic will compete in Venice Classics, highlighting Czech film restoration efforts.www.praguereporter.com

Visions & Apparitions by Ladislav Klíma (artwork by @wordkunst.bsky.social) is now available in the UK, will be in the US in fall. More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/visions-appa... #horror #ghoststories #czechfiction #gothic #poe #hallucination #translation #absurdism #nietzsche

Back from the printer and available for order here: www.twistedspoon.com/visions-appa...

"Hats off to Alexander Booth for this fine translation." www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...

The Book BeatA new post was just added to the Book Beat website and newsletter.www.thebookbeat.com

Ria Dhull at Heavy Feather Review: on The Tigress: "Serner’s Dada roots peek through the darkness of The Tigress; there is something of the absurd within its chaos." heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/04/07/t...

Fiction Review: Ria Dhull Reads Walter Serner’s Curious Love Story The TigressSome years after Walter Serner helped bring Dadaism to Zurich, he broke away from the movement. The Tigress, perhaps Serner’s most famous work, emerged in the period after Serner’s detachment from …heavyfeatherreview.org

A tribute to Adam J. Sorkin, a prolific translator of Romanian poetry who passed away a couple of months ago (as we just found out). We were fortunate to collaborate with him on the collection Memory Glyphs. plumepoetry.com/tribute-to-a...

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‘Erotikon’: Controversial Czech classic returns to Prague cinemas in newly restored versionDigitally restored silent classic by Gustav Machatý has returned to Czech cinemas, offering modern audiences a rare look at one of the most provocative films of the interwar era.www.praguereporter.com

"The variety in the folded clock is almost astonishingly great. If all conceived somehow around numbers, Rühm does much more than simply offer a few variations on a few themes -- of either subject matter or approach."

Wishing everyone the very best for the new year, and a big thanks to all who did us right this past year.

Tomorrow, Nov. 26 downstairs at Café Club Míšeňská (Míšenska 3, Malá Strana) Alexander Booth will be presenting his translations of Gerhard Rühm. All Welcome. Doors open at 19:00, we'll start some time later. www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock... www.twistedspoon.com/cake-and-pro...

"I found myself so intrigued by the whole book that I wanted to go back to the start and read it all over again. It’s fascinating!"

"Fec and Bichette move around in the underbelly of Paris, a place where all is not what it seems and where money seems to be the main motivator."

Now available: The Folded Clock, text and images by Gerhard Rühm, trans. by @wordkunst.bsky.social who also translated Rühm's Cake & Prostheses for us last year. Both incorporate images with the text and lexical play with roots in Dada. More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...

Good interview with translator @wordkunst.bsky.social in this month's issue of @theberliner.bsky.social . Alex's translation of The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm is out soon. www.scribd.com/document/929...

Interview with Alexander Booth | PDFAn interview with translator Alexander Booth about his work on Gerhard Rühm, Alexander Kluge, et al., in the October 2025 issue of The Berliner.www.scribd.com

In time for Banned Books Week, The Tigress by Walter Serner is now available and on the way to the distributor. Serner's only novel, it's a nihilistic "love story" where a grifter and an escort team up to scam the casino crowd of the Riviera. More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/the-tigress....

Great review of Z. Brabcova's Ceilings (tr. @terez-veve.bsky.social ) by Garrett Biggs in Asymptote: "[Novická] has bravely and fluently rendered Brabcová’s work, and her talents are most evident when she captures the author’s dark humor." www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/08...

Possibilities in Transformation: A Review of Ceilings by Zuzana Brabcová - Asymptote Blog[Ceilings] and its setting dwell in a place where play and terror occur simultaneously. . .www.asymptotejournal.com

James Dyer on V. Nezval's A Prague Flaneur for @fullstopmag.bsky.social "A Prague Flâneur reads as an individual’s lonely account of being with people in a city that inspires dreams to no end." www.full-stop.net/2025/08/11/r...

A Prague Flâneur – Vítězslav NezvalPrague surpasses its “practical necessity” and expands into a dynamic host for memorieswww.full-stop.net

"It's a fun collection, especially in the creative stage-experiments. Rühm is not unserious, but there is a humorous edge to many of the pieces -- and quite a few are quite erotically charged as well. There's nice variety here, too, making for a good sampler of Rühm's work and language-play ..."

In this weekend's The Irish Times, a roundup on recent translations by Declan O'Driscoll, who says this about The Arsonist: "First published in 1935, the novel is beautifully written, with a narrative style that whispers confidences to the reader."

Thanks JS : "Its raw, unapologetic narrative slips seamlessly between voice and perspective, continually cross-referencing itself, to create a world—one woman’s world, past and present—that for all its surreal elements is cohesive, sympathetic and real."