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How Google Killed Me

Amy Wilentz | Posted 05.12.2013 | Technology
Amy Wilentz

Finding myself offed by the world's greatest search engine, I began to wonder how they'd ended up sending me to an untimely grave.

WATCH: Mind-bending Advertisement For Online Bookseller

Posted 03.12.2012 | Books

Animation studio Buck is known for mind-bending creative work for clients including Google, Honda and the Sundance Festival - so when they turned thei...

Book Smart Street Art

Posted 01.18.2012 | Arts

When you look at a Shakespeare play you may see many things: a masterpiece, a classic, or a headache, but Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), s...

WATCH: 'The L Train Song' Pokes Fun At Pretentious Subway Riders

The Huffington Post | Steven Hoffer | Posted 11.02.2011 | Comedy

This song is for everyone who ever suspiciously peered over a fellow subway rider's shoulder and judged that person by what he or she was reading -- s...

Literary Characters Who Should Be Tweeting

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.03.2011 | Books

As any true Joyce fan knows, Bloomsday is fast approaching, and this year, thanks to Twitter, there will be a new way to celebrate. One dedicated fan ...

From Kafka To Larsson: Great Posthumous Novels

Telegraph | James Lachno | Posted 06.15.2011 | Books

From Kafka to Larsson, these authors have had some of their greatest work published after their deaths....

Franz Kafka Letters To Favorite Sister Sold

The Guardian | Mark Brown | Posted 06.05.2011 | Books

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...

Kafka Gets A Makeover

Creative Review | Mark Sinclair | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Peter Mendelsund is a book cover designer at Alfred A Knopf in New York and recently became the art director of Knopf imprint, Pantheon. He documents ...

Kafka And Kittens! 'The Meowmorphosis' Book Coming Soon

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

What if Gregor Samsa woke up to find he was not a cockroach -- not "horrible vermin," as Franz Kafka wrote in "The Metamorphosis," but a super-cute ki...

Kafka and the True Way

David Vognar | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
David Vognar

~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...

Twain, Salinger, Kafka ...

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

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...

WATCH: Prague's Kafka International Airport

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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...

Lost Kafka Writings Trapped In Trial

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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

Kafka Manuscripts: The Fight Over Kafka

Rodger Kamenetz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Rodger Kamenetz

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.

Kafka Manuscripts: Will We Ever See His Cache Of Unpubilshed Works?

The Guardian | Mark Tran | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Franz Kafka wanted all his manuscripts to be burned after his death, but his friend Max Brod disregarded the request, seeding a complex legal battle o...

Kafka Vault Opened, Finally, After Being Hidden For Decades

Israel News | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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...

How Old Can A 'Young Writer' Be?

The New York Times | SAM TANENHAUS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

IT may well be that the writers singled out by The New Yorker have already written lasting works. But it is a mistake to assume that because they are ...

The Literary Fortress

Alan Black | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Alan Black

"What's that?" I asked. "A literary fortress," he said, "And a metaphor." I walked around the battlements. Thick hardback tomes lay beneath stacks of paperbacks rising into walls and turrets.

Graphic Novels Make It To Fine Art Museum

The Columbus Dispatch | Steve Stephens | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

TOLEDO -- Not far from the Van Goghs and Cezannes, visitors to the Toledo Museum of Art can find the "underground comix" of R. Crumb and the pioneerin...

Lockerbie and Kafka's Labyrinth

Michael Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Michael Carmichael

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.

Gitmo Lawyers: The Last Growth Industry?

William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
William Fisher

The Pentagon is offering $39,407-$130,211 a year for lawyers who will help respond to habeas corpus petitions filed by detainees in federal courts.