Restless, curious, and captivating, Egon Erwin Kisch was known during the years between the past century's two world wars as "the raging reporter" (1) for his part in the development of reportage, a form of journalism based on fact, but as inviting and stylized as fiction. Kisch was born into a large German-speaking Jewish community in Prague, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1885; and he died of a heart attack in that same Prague, now communist and almost entirely Czech-speaking, in 1948. He began his journalism career by writing compelling and distinctively intrigue-oriented newspaper sketches of his native city, but before long his burning restlessness incited ...

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