A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” ...

For Harman, translation is not merely a mechanical process of matching words, but an effort to breathe life into the ...

“A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” It is a quintessential Kafka image. I see an ice ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s “The Trial,” an allegorical story of modern oppressive systems.

Xiaotian Liu’s case illustrates a much broader situation affecting thousands of international students across the country.

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The stoner comedians reunite for one last ride, bickering about their breakup and searching the desert for signs.

A 1977 trip to Glasgow introduced me to the fabulous second-hand bookshop Voltaire and Rousseau, which happily is still ...

When we see Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer genuflecting before the Trump throne at exactly the wrong moment, we see people ...