Table of Contents:
  • The Man Who Disappeared: Franz Kafka between Prague and New York
  • Behind the Gold Curtain: F. O. Matthiessen on the Czechoslovak Road to Socialism
  • The Cowards' Guide to World Literature: Josef Škvorecký's American Epigraphs
  • The Kingdom of May: Allen Ginsberg through Springtime Prague
  • The Tourist: Philip Roth and the Writers from the Other Europe
  • Across the Gray Zone: American Writers and the Czech Jazz Section.