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Inside the mind of Franz Kafka
A revelatory edition of his diaries and a new biography upend the simplified myth of the anguished writer.
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Locking down with Kafka
How the great writer, in his airless, claustrophobic fictions, provides a guide to living in the pandemic age.
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Unlucky Franz: Ian Thomson on Kafka’s life of unholy tedium
The strange creatures of Kafka’s posthumous collection The Burrow.
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Death by data: how Kafka’s The Trial prefigured the nightmare of the modern surveillance state
We live in a world of covert court decisions and secret bureaucratic procedures and where privacy is being abolished –…
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