Franz Kafka

Two Ounces of Kafka: How a Little Oil Caused a Ton of Trouble

Paul Loeb | Posted 01.29.2012 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Pete Knutson, Washington State, Seattle, Exxon, Fishermen's Terminal, Franz Kafka, Homeland Security, Environment, Port of Seattle, Oil Spill, Politics News

For years, Seattle salmon fisherman Pete Knutson has developed pioneering environmental alliances between commercial fishermen, Native American tribes...

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Unhappy Anniversary, Guantanamo!

Carlos Harrison | Posted 01.11.2012 | Latino Voices

Read More: Guantanamo, Latino Politics, Fidel Castro, Franz Kafka, Latino Voices News

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.

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Samuel Beckett's Reading List

Posted 12.20.2011 | Books

Read More: William Faulkner, Albert Camus, Reading List, Jules Verne, Catcher in the Rye, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Books News

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...

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Kafka and the Doll: The Pervasiveness of Loss

May Benatar, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. | Posted 12.03.2011 | DC

Read More: Emotional Healing, Healing Stories, Loss, Dealing With Grief, Kafka and the Doll, Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka Doll, DC News

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.

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Q&A With Nicole Krauss, Author of Great House and The History of Love

Elana Estrin | Posted 11.15.2011 | Books

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Mishkenot Sha?Ananim, Kenwood House, Sigmund Freud, Alma Singer, Bruno Schulz, Pinochet, The Moomintroll Series, Georges Perec, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fleur Cowles, Man Walks Into a Room, Evelyn Waugh, John Fowles, Haim Hazaz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, National Book Award, Yehuda Amichai, Rembrandt, Franz Kafka, Jerusalem Cultural Fellowship, Saul Bellow, Peter Handke, Jerusalem, John Foster Dulles, Susan Sontag, Amos Oz, Zbigniew Herbert, Chile, Tove Jansson, Francis Bacon, Courtauld Institute in London, Nicole Krauss, The Last Jew, Great House, Hampstead Heath, The History of Love, Yoel Hoffmann, Samuel Beckett, Yoram Kaniuk, David Grossman, Israel, Harry Ransom Center, Thomas Bernhard, Books We Love, Books News

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.

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Famous Last Words: Writers' Final Words Before Death

Posted 10.09.2011 | Books

Read More: Writers Last Words, Virgina Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Books News, Jane Austen, Authors Last Words, Franz Kafka, Charlotte Bronte, Famous Last Words, Mark Twain, Last Words, Thomas Hobbes, Books News

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...

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Is Emotional Torture Always The Price of Brilliance? (PHOTOS)

Posted 06.11.2011 | Books

Read More: Jackson Pollack, Charles Laughton, A Beautiful Mind, Alan Turing, Franz Kafka, Troubled Geniuses, Bobby Fischer, David Helfgott, Slidepollajax, John Nash, Ettore Majorana, Books News

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...

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Franz Kafka Letters To Favorite Sister Sold

The Guardian | Mark Brown | Posted 06.05.2011 | Books

Read More: Kafka's Sister, Kafka, Letters to Ottla, Oxford Library, Franz Kafka, Bodleian Library, Authors, Books News

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...

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I Can Has Kafka? "The Meowmorphosis" Reviewed

Andrew Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Quirk Books, Kittens, The Metamorphosis, Funny Books, Lolcats, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Franz Kafka, Books News

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.

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Charlie Sheen Is Not a Dancing Bear: He's a Hunger Artist (and a Person)

Christopher Cocca | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Addiction, Television, Media, Franz Kafka, Media News

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.

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Sylvia Plath Drew Hotdogs And Borges Sketched Dancers: Famous Authors Are Doodlers, Too

flavorwire.com | Emily Temple | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Authors, Author Doodles, David Foster Wallace, Vladimir Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Samuel Beckett, Author Drawings, Sylvia Plath, Mark Twain, Allen Ginsberg, Franz Kafka, Books News

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...

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ARTS LUST: Remembering Henri Bergson

Allan M. Jalon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Henri Bergson, Creativity, 20th Century Philosophy, Sartre, Franz Kafka, Arts News

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.

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Kafka and the True Way

David Vognar | Posted 05.25.2011 | College

Read More: Jewish Culture, Politics, Social Change, Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Luther King, Philosophy, Franz Kafka, College News

~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...

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Twain, Salinger, Kafka ...

guardian.co.uk | Nicholas Royle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Elizabeth Bowen, JD Salinger, Raymond Chandler, Salinger, Twain, Franz Kafka, Proust, Kafka, Carver, Raymond Carver, Mark Twain, Marcel Proust, Muriel Spark, Frank O'Hara, Books News

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...

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Lance Armstrong's Trial: Franz Kafka, Anyone?

Jonathan Littman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports

Read More: Sports Doping, Tour De France, Justice Department, Lance Armstrong, Franz Kafka, Jeff Novitsky, Sports News

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.

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Test Your Knowledge of Literature's Greatest Bed Bug Infestations

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold-Bug, William Peter Blatty, Vermin, The Bible, Moby-Dick, The Exorcist, Papillon, Henri Charriere, The Metamorphosis, Bed Bugs, Herman Melville, Franz Kafka, Book of Exodus, Books News

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.

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WATCH: Prague's Kafka International Airport

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Kafka Trial, Kafka Metamorphosis, The Onion, The Trial, Franz Kafka, Kafka, The Onion News, The Metamorphosis, Books, Book, Video, Books News

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...

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Lost Kafka Writings Trapped In Trial

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Kafka the Trial, Kafka, Books, Lost Kafka Papers, Franz Kafka, Kafka Trial, Books News

JERUSALEM — It seems almost Kafkaesque: Ten safety deposit boxes of never-published writings by Franz Kafka, their exact contents unknown, are t...

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Kafka Manuscripts: The Fight Over Kafka

Rodger Kamenetz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Max Brod, Franz Kafka, Books, Kafka, Manuscripts, Zurich, Eve Hoffe, German Literature Archive, Authors, The Trial, Reiner Stach, The Penal Colony, Kafka Manuscripts, Lost Manuscripts, Books News

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.

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Kafka Vault Opened, Finally, After Being Hidden For Decades

Israel News | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Max Brod, Kafka, Books, Kafka Safety Deposit Box, Franz Kafka, Tel Aviv, Books News

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...

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Rubber Rooms: Gone From New York City, But Alive Elsewhere?

Justin Snider | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Read More: Waiting for Superman, William Safire, United Federation of Teachers, Franz Kafka, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Mulgrew, Joel Klein, Steven Brill, Rubber Rooms, Davis Guggenheim, New York City, New York News

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.

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You Really Going to Give 'Eat Pray Love' for Mother's Day? Here Are Ten Unexpected Books For Mom (PHOTOS, POLL)

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: James Cain, Joni Mitchell, Gabriel Carcia Marquez, Anne Lamott, Bill Mckibben, Carly Simon, Franz Kafka, Carole King, Eat Pray Love, Bestsellers, Literary Prizes, Slidepollajax, Books News

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...

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Power vs Force - A New Year's Lesson From Yoda

Lotta Alsen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Star Wars, Wisdom, Franz Kafka, Dating, Getting Clients, Power, Yoda, Spirituality, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News

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.

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MTA's "Train Of Thought" Series Inspires With... Franz Kafka?

newyorker.com | Posted by Christopher Glazek | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Read More: Subway, Gregor Samsa, Franz Kafka, Train for Thought, Mta, Metamorphosis, Jane Tylus, Mass Transit, Poetry in Motion, New York News

Is it possible that the subway wizards are getting too clever, that in their self-described efforts to "enlighten millions of New York commuters" they...

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Lockerbie and Kafka's Labyrinth

Michael Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Megrahi, Franz Kafka, Kafka, Lockerbie, Hugh Miles, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Scottish Criminal Case Review Commission, Lindauer, Fhima, Fuisz, World News

Lockerbie remains a compelling and inscrutable tragedy. The victims deserve an unbiased investigation, but at this late date the probability that the perpetrators of Lockerbie will ever be known is diminishing.

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