The
New York Times has a sensitive, perceptive, and extremely funny piece out today about the
resurgence of interest in the Golem in Prague. (This story is one of the reasons foreign affairs bureaus are extremely important: they give us a sense of day-to-day life in other countries. And provide an excuse for reporters to chase things like Golems.) But as anyone who's read Michael Chabon's
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay knows, the Golem was smuggled out of Prague long ago in service of a plot device in a novel about comic books.