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In J.M. Coetzee's latest story collection, questions of the soul become urgent as the body becomes frail

Devotees of J.M. Coetzee’s writing will be delighted at the publication of The Pole and Other Stories. What may be surprising to some about this collection is that the stories have all appeared before in some form – but not always in English.

The Conversation

The science behind the brain-altering impact of your first pregnancy

Having given birth, Lucy Jones dug deep into the science of why she felt like a totally different person… and had her mind blown by what she discovered

Evening Standard

Tilda Swinton joins Max Richter on Glastonbury stage for spoken word performance

The actress was on the Park stage at Glastonbury.

The Independent UK

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Friday essay: 'All I am is literature' – Franz Kafka's diaries were the forge of his writing

Picture the scene. It is the closing years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, before the Great War changed such scenes forever. A young man with sound prospects is to meet his fiancée’s father for the first time.

The Conversation

'Honkai Star Rail' Theory Teases a Freaky Kafka Twist Ahead

'Honkai: Star Rail's Kafka has a couple of loose screws. Here's one piece of lore that you might've missed about the Stellaron Hunter.

Inverse

‘Beau Is Afraid’ explained: A disturbingly in-depth analysis of Ari Aster’s guilt trip to hell

If you’ve just watched Ari Aster’s new horror-comedy “Beau Is Afraid,” you probably have a few questions. Or maybe a lot of questions. Like, what was that?

Los Angeles Times

Top 10 badly behaved biographies

Life writing is usually a conventional business, but these writers take on the job by discarding the rules, with thrilling results

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Kafka's modest output had an outsized impact on modern culture

During a recent drive to campus, I found myself getting into a deep conversation about literature, music and philosophy with my son, an undergraduate student in the early stages of an arts degree. While we were talking, Bob Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone came on the radio. My son —…

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TikTok's addictive anti-aesthetic has already conquered culture

If Franz Kafka were to reconceive "The Metamorphosis" for our era, he might decide to ditch the novella in favor of a series of surreal TikToks — Gregor Samsa as eyes and mouth green-screened onto a picture of a roach jacked from the web.

Los Angeles Times

Shannon Burns' Childhood is a story of disconnection, neglect, violence and poverty

Shannon Burns’ memoir Childhood begins with an epigraph from Leo Tolstoy’s book of the same name:

The Conversation

Maria Bartuszová review – a world of misshapen planets and alien art forms

The Prague-born artist, who made wildly experimental art under the nose of the communist authorities, began casting her weirdly entrancing sculptures from children’s party balloons

The Guardian - UK

Tourist jailed nearly ten years after $2 taxi fare dispute because court made devastating typo

“When you’re in that system, you literally get the wrong information so many times. I stopped believing anything”

The Independent UK

This summer may be one of the most consequential in US democracy

The Long Summer of 2022 began in May, when the abortion opinion draft leaked, and continued through a series of brutal rulings and congressional hearings

The Guardian - US

Margaret Atwood's flamethrower of a stunt and the misguided moral certainty of book burning

If someone had told me a few weeks ago that nearly every major news website and social media account in the English-speaking world would post a video of Margaret Atwood – the 82-year-old matron saint of Canadian letters, the subject of countless doctoral dissertations and at least ten forests worth…

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Franz Kafka warned us about Fox News

If we show our children pictures of enemies with "sharp pointed teeth," Kafka told us, they "run into our arms"

Los Angeles Times

Review: 'Russian Doll' didn't need a second season, but the series pulls it off beautifully

Given how firmly it closed its circular plot, and the relatively peculiar particulars of its narrative — "relatively" since it ran on an engine oft-lifted from "Groundhog Day" — it's somewhat surprising to see a second season of "Russian Doll," the excellence of its 2019 first season notwithstanding. In that…

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