In Paperback: The Metamorphosis
/Kafka's immortal story about a man who wakes up one day and finds he's an insect gets a sterling new translation
Read MoreBook Review: Kafka in Love
/Franz Kafka was eternally affianced but never married - maybe more in love with the concept of love than with any particular woman. A new novel intensely dramatizes the writer and his passions.
Read MoreFrom the Archives: A Voyeur in the Archives
/"Ellis, Leyner, Leavitt, Franzen, Powers…their fictions reduce to complaints and self-pity. Dostoevski has balls.” This and other gleanings from a trip to the David Foster Wallace archives.
Read MoreArt Beneath the Floorboards
/Dostoevsky's moody, brilliant "Notes from the Underground" was recently given an edgy, provocative theater treatment. Can Russia's most unfilmable writer be acted on the stage?
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