1921: A new play premieres at the National Theater in Prague, the capital of what was then Czechoslovakia. R.U.R, (which stands for Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Capek, marks the first use of ...

Classic Stage Company has revealed the final two Rediscovery Readings of the 2025-2026 season. CSC will present RUR by Karel ...

L is for Look explores the place of photography in children's books. From their rise in the 1930s, the exhibition traces the history of a medium that has seen images become a universal language.

In the past five months, wire news services have carried stories about new robots that can fetch bread, help the elderly out of bed, track whales, play violins, fill gas tanks and act like a monkey.

On March 15 1939, as German occupying forces advanced on Prague, the Gestapo arrived at the home of No 3 on their most wanted list – only to discover that Karel Capek had been dead for three months.

Internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek (1890-1938) may have played second fiddle to his Prague colleague and contemporary Franz Kafka, but he gets treated to a fond biography with Ivan ...

I have two confessions to make — long-hidden nerd secrets about which I simply have to come clean. One: I read science fiction. A lot. And two: If things aren't funny, I tend to ignore them. I realize ...

Michael Henry Heim teaches in the departments of Slavic languages and literatures and comparative literature at UCLA and has translated numerous works by Milan Kundera, Gunter Grass, Bohumil Hrabal ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The 2025 record price for Karel Capek was for RUR The 2024 record price for Karel Capek was for A) Zuidersee; B) Still Life with Suitcases The 2023 record price for Karel Capek was for Bílá nemoc.