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Announcement: 'A Year in Kafka' becomes 'Paper Knife'
Carving a New Path in Literary Exploration
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Taking Off with Kafka
A Dispatch from the Dawn of Flight
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The Birth of a Bug
Tracing the Origins of Kafka's Metaphor in "Wedding Preparations"
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Kafka on Champagne
Toasting Faraway Flames and Pushing Through the Wallpaper
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The Office as Inspiration
How Kafka's work speaks to our own anxieties in an increasingly impersonal world
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May 2024

The Kafka Grind
From Insurance Clerk to Literary Genius
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Kafka's "Fat Man"
Deciphering Kafka's "Description of a Struggle" (2/2)
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The Struggle Within
Exploring the Themes and Techniques in Kafka's "Description of a Struggle" (1/2)
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April 2024

An Odd Couple: Franz Kafka and Max Brod
Inside the relationship that saved Kafka's work from obscurity
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Kafka's University Years
Friendships and Forgotten Drawings
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Kafka's Moonlight Tryst: Love in the Time of Nietzsche
As I indicated in last week’s post, Franz Kafka’s first extant letter documents a romantic encounter that took place in the summer of 1900, shortly…
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Kafka's Crucible: School, Language, and the Birth of a Writer
Last time, I talked about Kafka’s childhood and his complicated relationship with his father. So now, let’s continue our exploration of Kafka’s…
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