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Jean Tong’s Do Not Pass Go is Kafka for the modern corporate age

In the shadow of Franz Kafka’s visionary dystopian fiction, the faceless, hierarchical machinery of bureaucracy has long served as a symbol of quiet, grinding despair. Kafka’s institutions are at once impenetrable and absurd, systems that trap individuals in a perpetual tension between resignation and the faint, flickering hope of change.

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Salman Rushdie's new book is his first fiction since a brutal attack. He tells us why

Salman Rushdie's new book, “The Eleventh Hour,” marks a creative reset for the author

The Independent UK

W.G. Sebald’s early critical essays mine his great literary themes – exile, trauma, memory and war

“Author as well as professor,” was how Winfried Georg (“Max”) Sebald styled himself in the note attached to an article he contributed to a 1990 issue of the experimental Austrian journal, Trans-Garde. Sebald had long harboured a desire to be an author and had a clear plan for becoming one.…

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Are you an otrovert? Why this personality type could be your greatest gift

Feel like you don’t belong? Crave emotional independence? Constantly come up with original ideas? Like Frida Kahlo, Franz Kafka and Albert Einstein, you could have a distinct case of otroversion ...

The Guardian - UK

“Jeff Lynne and Yes are in the music of Radiohead, Sigur Rós and Muse. It’s overlooked in theirs but not in mine. I don’t have the self-validation I’d like”: Steven Wilson is grateful for prog fans’ support, but he wishes others liked him too

Arguing that pop isn’t as all-embracing as it used to be, he examines the nature of being a nerd with an ego, and wonders if the flawed musical gear his dad built him meant he was always going to make prog sounds

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Judge compares Trump’s Alien Enemies deportations to ‘Kafka’-esque nightmare that ‘entombed’ immigrants in El Salvador

Judge James Boasberg orders the government to give dozens of deported Venezuelans a chance to challenge their removals in court

The Independent UK

I found myself Googling: can brain cancer cause hiccups? How I fell into a hypochondriac rabbit hole

Begging doctors for tests, I worried that I was missing something and heading for an early death. Would understanding the roots of my health anxiety lead me to a cure?

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The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

The Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies; Lovers of Franz K by Burhan Sönmez; Back in the Day by Oliver Lovrenski; Waist Deep by Linea Maja Ernst

The Guardian - UK

Once Decimated Under Nazi Rule, the Austrian Hakoah Sports Club Is Alive Again

Founded in 1909 to foster a new image and confidence among Jews in Vienna, it flourished before it was banned. Today, the club and its spirit are revitalized.

Sports Illustrated

Punishment in search of a crime – Franz Kafka’s The Trial at 100

“A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” It is a quintessential Kafka image. I see an ice-axe, the sharpened point of its curved metal head shattering a vast plane of ice into hairline…

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Once a bestseller, now forgotten – why William by E.H. Young deserves a revisit

In a year filled with centenaries of famous novels, including Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Franz Kafka’s The Trial, another novel also quietly turns 100. William was published in 1925 by the once-celebrated, now largely forgotten, E.H. Young.

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Fascism is here: Are liberals awake yet?

Welcome to upside-down America: David Brooks calls for revolution while Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom grovel

Salon

“Way Of The Exploding Dickhead is a modern parable, without the parable bit.” Noise-rock veterans mclusky announce first album in over 20 years, share two new songs, and reveal UK and Australia tour plans

the world is still here and so are we will be released via Mike Patton's Ipecac label

Louder

"Kafkaesque" Gun Background Check Delays May Violate Second Amendment

From Judge Trevor McFadden's opinion last week in Sedita v. U.S. (D.D.C.): "Where was the Judge whom he had never… The post "Kafkaesque" Gun Background Check Delays May Violate Second Amendment appeared first on Reason.com.

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Silent Catastrophes by WG Sebald review – academic writing at its most sterile

A collection of professional leftovers that can only diminish the posthumous reputation of a master of high literature

PC Gamer

The most promising Disco Elysium successor studio says workers must unite to topple Valve's 'digital fiefdom' of Steam

So comrades, come rally.

Fortune

Exclusive: Ramp, valued at $7.65 billion, launches its own app store

Ramp is launching its own app store, called the Ramp App Center, Fortune has exclusively learned.

The Guardian - UK

Alienation effect: why film-makers can’t get enough of Franz Kafka

A string of auteur directors – from Orson Welles to Steven Soderbergh to Lorenza Mazzetti – have fallen for Kafka’s visionary brilliance, with always-intriguing results

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Robert Coover obituary

One of the leading lights of US postmodern fiction best known for his 1969 short story The Babysitter and The Public Burning

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Rising stars: graduates and hot new digital artists to watch in 2024

We shine a spotlight on the superstars of the future and their work at top art schools.

The National (Scotland)

Mark Brown: Here's my biggest picks for this year's Fringe

IT’S that time of year again, when many a well-heeled Edinburgher departs for three-and-a-half weeks in Provence, renting out their home for the…

The Conversation

Kafka at 100: Rawi Hage’s brilliant ‘Cockroach’ invited some comparison to ‘The Metamorphosis’

“How to exist and not to belong?” asks the unnamed protagonist and narrator of Rawi Hage’s second novel, Cockroach.

The Guardian - UK

Kafka: Selected Stories, edited by Mark Harman review – the master who never wasted a word

A Franz Kafka scholar’s perceptive annotation and translation highlights every subtle shade of humour and brilliant aphorism in these singular tales

The Guardian - UK

‘Making this film was forbidden’: how Agnieszka Holland’s migrant thriller inflamed the Polish right

The director has long explored the darkest corners of European life. Now her latest drama Green Border has caused outrage in her homeland – and become an unlikely box office hit

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on culture: fight for the arts in our era of austerity

Editorial: The real culture war is the battle to fund it properly, in the face of politicians bemoaning a lack of money

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