If you were to awake one morning and find yourself transformed into a giant insect, you might call the situation "Kafkaesque" (although it would probably be difficult for you to pronounce the word ...

Definition of KAFKAESQUE (Merriam-Webster): of, relating to, or suggestive of Franz Kafka or his writings; especially : having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality. Kafka's genius ...

Doubleplusgood: Peter Cushing as Winston Smith in the BBC's 1954 production of Nineteen Eighty-Four - TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy Stock Photo EIn the upcoming Radio 4 series Orwell vs Kafka, Ian Hislop recounts ...

There’s something eerily and sadly fitting about the name of the Salvadoran immigrant man from Maryland who was erroneously abducted by federal agents and flown to a draconian and secretive prison in ...

When I was growing up, there was no more famous symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall. But in fact, the Wall could never really compare to the demilitarized zone that divides North and South ...

Exhibitions focused on writers are often an uneasy balance of biography and interpretation, image and text, but Franz Kafka, who continues to fascinate and confound readers well into the 21st century, ...

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Someone must have been telling lies about Donald T. because he had done nothing wrong and yet he kept having to be on trial. He was on trial everywhere at once. No, T. could think of no possible ...

Two California Supreme Court justices called the state’s position in a nearly two-decade coastal permitting dispute ...