Kafka
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World
The Very Online Afterlife of Franz Kafka
On TikTok, a collection of objects sits atop a stack of books: a string of pearls, a Diptyque candle, a Sylvanian Families rabbit figurine in a scallop-collared dress. A woman’s hand brushes them aside. She pages through the pile of books below. We ...
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Arts
Everyone Wants a Piece of Kafka, a Writer Who Refused to Be Claimed
A hundred years after Kafka’s death, people and nations are still fighting over his legacy.
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World
In Praise of Bookstores, a Reader’s Refuge
More from our inbox: The Kafka DiariesNews Literacy: The Antidote for Online MisinformationMisdiagnosed by an Apple WatchUnrepresentative PollsCredit...Kyle EllingsonTo the Editor: Re “The Unlikely Bookstore of My Dreams,” by Ezra Klein (column, Jan ...
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World
A Century On, the Search for the Real Franz Kafka Continues
The first time Franz Kafka’s voice entered my head, I was 15. Two new friends I’d made through our shared interest in literature had introduced me to his fiction, and we took turns reading the Willa and Edwin Muir translations to each other in the ...
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Arts
The Kafka You Never Knew
An unabridged volume of Franz Kafka’s diaries restores the rough edges and impulses that were buffed out of past editions.