The Writing on the Wall: An Anthology of Contemporary Czech Literature. Edited by Antonin Liehm and Peter Kussi. Translated by Vera Blackwell, Jan Drabek, William E. Harkins, Peter Kussi, Kaca Polackova, Suzanne Rappaport, Miroslav Rensky, and Paul Wilson. Introduction by Ludvík Vaculík. New York: Karz-Cohl Publishing, 1983 (compiled from material first published in samizdat in Czechoslovakia by Edice Petlice. Many of the pieces have been reprinted in Hodina Nadeje: almanack česke literatury 1968–1978 [Toronto: Sixty-Eight Publishers, 1978] and in Cam na zdi [Cologne: Index, 1978]). xviii, 252 pp. $19.95.