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Wired's editor tells me how she got 62,000 new subscribers in 2 weeks
News publishers weren't expecting a new "Trump Bump" this year. So how did Wired sign up 62,000 subscribers in two weeks in ...
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Punishment in search of a crime: Franz Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ turns 100
“A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack ... Fellow Czech writer Milan Kundera, whose youth was shaped by Stalinist communism, characterised the Kafkaesque as ...
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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 ... Fellow Czech writer Milan Kundera, whose youth was shaped by Stalinist communism, characterised the Kafkaesque as ...
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Learning the Language of Franz Kafka: Inside Mark Harman’s Translation
On March 26 in the Barker Center, admirers of Franz Kafka and enthusiasts of literary translation gathered for a roundtable discussion with award-winning translator Mark Harman. A distinguished ...
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The Morgan Museum’s Kafka Show Is … Kafkaesque
In this exhibition, we are relying on the information we’re given to try to attain a mythologized goal that is always out of reach. Andy Warhol, "Franz Kafka" (1980) (courtesy Ronald Feldman ...
The New Criterion2mon
Kafka in Jerusalem
Franz Kafka published little during his life and shared the manuscripts of his novels and short stories mostly with confidants in his literary “Prague Circle.” After contracting tuberculosis, Kafka ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency4mon
Franz Kafka’s Hebrew writings are now on view in New York City
Celebrated Jewish writer Franz Kafka may have written his most famous works, including the novella “The Metamorphosis,” in German, his mother tongue. But Kafka was proficient in other ...
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Franz steps out of the shadow of his ‘Kafkaesque’ world
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Franz Kafka’s handsome face, with its patrician cheekbones, tremendous dark eyes and vaguely ironic ...
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NLI commemorates centenary of Franz Kafka’s death
While Kafka (1883-1924) passed away June 3 ... Irmgard Keun, Stefan Zweig, Franz Werfel, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Heinrich Mann. Werfel’s 1933 novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, depicting Armenian ...
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Franz Kafka Walks Into the House of Morgan, and Makes Himself at Home
The financier John Pierpont Morgan and the writer Franz Kafka appear at first blush to be an odd pair. The titan of finance from Hartford was a modern Midas. The Jewish writer from Prague died young ...
Time Out6mon
A first look at the new Franz Kafka exhibit at The Morgan Library & Museum
When you think of Franz Kafka, there are a few words that likely come to mind: Lonely, tortured, isolated. But this depiction doesn’t actually tell the full story of Kafka, a new exhibit at The ...