Many believe that a childs creativity can only bloom in the warmth of a loving, nurturing and supportive household. While artistic talent can flourish in comfortable surroundings, research has shown ...

Gene Siskel didn't include many sci-fi films on his yearly top 10 lists, but classics like Back to the Future and A Clockwork Orange got his approval.

After a five-month siege in the First Crusade, Crusaders seize Antioch (in modern day Turkey). 1539: Explorer Hernando de ...

A production of Joseph K and the Cost of Living (After Franz Kafka) will appear at Twickenham’s Mary Wallace Theatre, ...

Last year was the death centenary of Franz Kafka. Mark Harman’s richly annotated ... century Central European Jew into a universal depiction of modern alienation.” In other words, Kafka abstracts, ...

“A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend ... from the old archaic imperial bureaucracy to modern bureaucracy”. They found Kafka’s worldview so powerful that they ...

On March 26 in the Barker Center, admirers of Franz Kafka and enthusiasts of literary ... fidelity to the original and accessibility for modern readers. However, Harman diverges from this rigid ...

By 1917, Kafka had taken an interest in Hasidism and the Hebrew language, and his notebooks included legible sentences in modern Hebrew and a page dedicated to “antique” words collected from the ...

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810) was one of the great Chasidic writers of the early modern period. He was “Chasidic royalty”, writes Adam Kirsch in his superb introduction.

There are nearly a dozen different English translations of “The Trial,” by Franz Kafka, each with different abridged entries ... minutes encapsulate something particularly special that in modern day ...

Celebrated Jewish writer Franz Kafka may have written his most famous ... “He did not know how to write ‘Europe’ in modern Hebrew, so here he wrote it out phonetically instead, followed ...

Franz Kafka’s handsome face ... the “-esque” as a soul in perpetual conflict with the absurdities of modern life, its spiritual dislocations and irreconcilable contradictions.