The “definitive biography” of the poet and political dissident who became the last president of Czechoslovakia—and first president of the Czech Republic (

No one in Czech politics or culture could match the international stature of Václav Havel at the time of his death in 2011. In the years since his passing, his

Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. Written sh

Gathered together here for the first time are seven plays that span Havel's career from his early days at the Theater of the Balustrade through the Prague Sprin

This is the story of a man who tried to resurrect the spirit of democratic life. He was born into a time of chaos and absurdity, and he took it as his fate to c