The European By Alexander Görlach Alexander Görlach of The European sat down with the German writer and intellectual Martin Walser to discuss th...
Posted 03.06.2012
Many artists allude to their inspirations in their works, and it is no different for artist Carl Kohler, who dedicated his life's work to paying respe...
Paul Loeb | Posted 03.29.2012
For years, Seattle salmon fisherman Pete Knutson has developed pioneering environmental alliances between commercial fishermen, Native American tribes...
Carlos Harrison | Posted 03.12.2012
It's been a troubled - some might say, tragic - 10 years for the detention camps at the Guantánamo Naval Base in Cuba. And as they slouch into their 11th year on January 11, there's no end in sight.
Posted 12.20.2011
From This Side of the Pond, Cambridge University Press' Blog Samuel Beckett’s letters are full of the literary names he encountered through his w...
May Benatar, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. | Posted 12.03.2011
Franz Kafka, the story goes, encountered a little girl in the park where he went walking daily. She was crying. She had lost her doll and was desolate.
Elana Estrin | Posted 11.15.2011
While studying art history in graduate school, novelist Nicole Krauss spent hours in the library researching Rembrandt, only to find that she preferred imagining the details of his life instead.
Posted 10.09.2011
A writer's life revolves around always knowing what to say and how to say it. But in the face of death, you'd think fear, pain and pressure would trum...
Posted 06.11.2011
They did brilliant work, they changed our lives, but how difficult was it to live theirs? Not a moment's peace for the writers, painters, scientists a...
The Guardian | Mark Brown | Posted 06.05.2011
More than 100 letters and postcards sent by Franz Kafka to his favourite sister Ottla have been jointly purchased by Oxford's Bodleian library and a r...
Andrew Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011
While the initial chapters stick close to Kafka's well-known novella, the book spirals out of control (in a good way) when Samsa leaves his parents' home to relieve them of a large, adorable kitten.
Christopher Cocca | Posted 05.25.2011
I know, I know, we're not supposed to sympathize with the rich kid, the Brat Packer, the guy who has everything and is, of his own volition, throwing it all away. But you know what? I do sympathize with him.
flavorwire.com | Emily Temple | Posted 05.25.2011
Everybody doodles. There's just something about an idle moment and a blank space on a page that invites a little design or two. Plus, there is some ev...
Allan M. Jalon | Posted 05.25.2011
Before January is forgotten, Arts Lust wants to place a memory kiss on the high slender forehead of Henri Bergson who died last month at the age of 81.
David Vognar | Posted 05.25.2011
~Franz Kafka: "The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It SEEMS intended more to cause stumb...
guardian.co.uk | Nicholas Royle | Posted 05.25.2011
Their writings help us see in different and remarkable ways the extent to which literature and telephones are in cahoots. When the phone starts ringin...
Jonathan Littman | Posted 05.25.2011
No crime has been charged against Lance Armstrong. No government authority has stepped forward to charge the cyclist. His trial is filled with the same mystery that swirled around Kafka's The Trial.
Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011
In this short tale of mystery and imagination, a man is bitten by a strange gold bug, which leads to the discovery of a cryptograph revealing the location of Captain Kidd's treasure.
Posted 05.25.2011
If you hate flying, steer clear of Prague. Franz Kafka International Airport is the worst airport in the world, says The Onion News Network. The air...
AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 05.25.2011
JERUSALEM — It seems almost Kafkaesque: Ten safety deposit boxes of never-published writings by Franz Kafka, their exact contents unknown, are t...
Rodger Kamenetz | Posted 05.25.2011
Who does Kafka belong to? The court case in Israel over the past two years will eventually decide the proper ownership of certain manuscripts of Kafka's.
Israel News | Posted 05.25.2011
After months of legal wrangling, one of the 10 safe deposit boxes in which documents belonging to the writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924 ) and his close fr...
Justin Snider | Posted 05.25.2011
Monday, June 28th, was the final day of the 2009-10 school year in New York City, which means the city's infamous "rubber rooms" also closed their doors. For good.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011
Mom isn't the little old lady from Pasadena. And you're not a kid anymore. So stun her on Mother's Day --- give her books that don't talk down to her. Like these ten...
Lotta Alsen | Posted 11.17.2011
In all spiritual traditions, which is where Yoda got his wisdom from, you learn how to center yourself, and it's when you are able to stay in that center, that magic occurs.
Posted 03.12.2012