This issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction presents new Slovak
fiction in translation, congregating such significant writers as Dusan
Dusek, Brano Hochel, Michal Hvorecky, Jan Johanides, Daniela Kapitanova,
Monika Kompanikova, and Dusan Simko, among others most of whom have
never before been translated into English to form a literary portrait of
contemporary Slovak identity, framed by traditionalism and yet striving
to engage the modern world with a voice all its own.