Save the Book World Petition

Signatures are being gathered for a petition to save the Washington Post’s Book World.

Life’s deeper mysteries

At my age I’m about as far from childhood as it’s possible to be.

Ferenc Karinthy: Metropole

If it isn’t Hell, it’s certainly a private hell for Budai, and while certain events echo the Hungarian revolution

Karinthy’s Kafkaesque Classic In Translation At Last

Things have changed a bit since Metropole was first published to great acclaim in Hungary in 1970.