Her Work and its praise
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A Publisher's Weekly: "Best Book of the Year..."
Booklist: "A one-of-a-kind book, not to be missed..."
Baltimore City Paper: "Masterful..."
Times Literary Supplement: "Brilliantly off-kilter detective stories..."
New York Times Book Review: "Delightfully inventive tales that tell us much about the mysteries of human experience."
Chicago Tribune Books: "You can't go wrong with these..."
Booklist: "A radiant volume..."
Atlantic Monthly: "Clever and thoughtful..."
Publishers Weekly: "These little nuggets combine broad learning with sharp wit."
Library Journal: "Wonderfully ironic observations on life...a thought-provoking collection."
Kirkus Reviews: "An unfailingly delightful book."
The Prague Post: "Recipe for a good summer: Buy a copy...Find a sunny spot..."
New York Times Book Review: "His abiding preoccupations with truth, justice and the apprehension of reality become poetic mediations in his stories."
The New Republic: "Some wonderful fictions..."
Los Angeles Times: "If anything, his works are more timely now than when he wrote them."
Philadelphia City Paper: "Every reader will find something of interest in this collection."
Washington Times: "Complex yet beautifully rendered prose...A timeless understanding of human psychology."
Booklist: "Early in his career, Capek is obviously a master in the making."
4. Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Capek Anthology
New York Times Book Review: "Fifty years after his death, Capek's work has lost nothing of its freshness and luster."
Philadelphia Inquirer: "A writer for us all, ripe for discovery."
Entertainment Weekly (A+): "R.U.R. is a study in future shock."
The Nation: "Brings the voice of Capek back to life."
American Book Review: "Capek was a cultural phenomenon."
Booklist: "Czecchoslovakia's foremost twentieth-century writer."
Times Literary Supplement: "A world-class writer...with his own eccentric kind of greatness."
New York Times Book Review: "Capek was among the greatest figures of modern world literature."
Kirkus Reviews: "A writer who ought to have won the Nobel Prize."
Library Journal: "Recommended for both public and academic libraries."
Choice: "A comprehensive, measured, fond reading of the Czech democratic relativist's entire oeuvre."
Booklist: "Klima fulfills his commission to introduce Capek to American readers near-perfectly."