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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.

The Conversation

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

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"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

The Guardian - UK

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

So comrades, come rally.

PC Gamer

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.

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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

The Guardian - UK

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.

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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…

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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 Conversation

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

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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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Playing Kafka review – a well-intentioned but sanitised attempt at adapting the unadaptable

The forking paths and opaque traps of his writings might sound amenable to gaming. But the meaningful futility of his fiction doesn’t add up to much here

The Conversation

Kafka 100: the Post Office scandal really was Kafkaesque – it’s right out of his novel The Trial

Somebody must have laid false information against [him], for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.

The Conversation

Kafka 100: a parade of men with no appetite from a writer consumed by thoughts of nourishment

There is a rather potent image of failure which recurs in the short stories and novels of Franz Kafka, the Czech writer who died of tuberculosis 100 years ago. The image is of a young man brimming with self-assurance who, without warning, is assailed by some irreproachable authority. He protests,…

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Franz Kafka’s Prague: a centenary tour of the writer’s home city

A hundred years after his death, the author’s presence is as strong as ever in the Czech capital – from his childhood homes and the literary cafes he frequented to the remarkable buildings immortalised in his work

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Franz Kafka letter shows author’s anguished struggle with writer’s block

Letter to friend and publisher Albert Ehrenstein, to be auctioned in June, details struggle to write at time of tuberculosis diagnosis

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A century after his death, Kafka still sums up our surreal world

A sneak preview of a new exhibition about him sends shivers down my spine

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Can’t get you out of my head: why pop culture is still under Kafka’s spell

A century on from the author’s death, the word ‘kafkaesque’ has survived wrangles over his estate, calls for its banishment and being used on the Simpsons and misused as a meme. How did it gain such a hold over culture?

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Kafka 100: struggles of disabled characters in systems that don’t support them feel just as relevant today

Throughout his work, Franz Kafka depicts bodies disabled by the exhausting effects of the workplace. In Amerika (1911 to 1914), set in an era of early 20th-century free-market enterprise, Kafka portrays the gruelling consequences of overwork on desperate people.

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Kafka 100: Stanley Kubrick’s films are littered with references to the writer’s work

I began teaching Stanley Kubrick in 2007 shortly after I moved to Bangor University. In 2012, I embarked on a research project exploring what I called Kubrick’s ethics, ethnicity and archives. It was during that research, which was published as Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual in 2018, that I…

The Guardian - UK

Metamorphoses by Karolina Watroba; A Cage Went in Search of a Bird; Diaries review – Franz Kafka as more than just a prophet of malaise

To mark the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, three compelling books – including his unedited diaries – reveal the complexity of the author’s works and why ‘Kafkaesque’ is so reductive

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