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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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 12, 2023

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 —…

The Conversation · Mar 12, 2023

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 · Jan 5, 2023

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…

The Conversation · May 31, 2022

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"

Salon · May 28, 2022

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…

Los Angeles Times · Apr 20, 2022