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The Latest Kafka Papers Controversy
The New York Times has an interesting story on the fate of some of Franz Kafka?s papers. The broad outline of the story is well-known: Kafka directed his friend, editor, and executor, Max Brod to destroy Kafka?s unpublished works, which...

The Estate of Franz Kafka
The disposition of the literary estate of Franz Kafka is metamorphosing into a dispute that may take many years to resolve. Here are the details summarized from Ethan Bronner, Under ?Kafkaesque? Pressure, Heir to Kafka Papers May Yield Them, NY...

NY Times: Kafkas pornography
But no one mined them for publication until Mr. Hawes chose to now ? which probably says more about who we are today than it does about who Kafka was.

Stop the Presses
The meaning of life is that it stops.  --- Franz KafkaIf you are familiar with Kafka and his short literary works, you will know that he was a tortured literary genius who was unsure of his own talent to the point of torment...

Banned Books Week: a Kafka Comes to America Book Talk
Banned Book Week event:Café Banned, at the Multnomah County Library, features a talk by the Oregon Public Defender, Steve Wax, who will talk about his book, Kafka Comes to America (also available at other libraries and bookstores).

On Vacation: "Kafka Comes to America"
Vacations are not for reading books like this one, Kafka Comes to America, but I?m a law librarian and we?re decidedly wonky. (I also read this (incredibly funny, though a bit worrying) and this (by Loren Estleman who also wrote this extraordinary book), so don?t think you can pigeonhole wonky law librarians :-)The first chapter of Kafka Comes to America brought back unnerving memories of a couple of things I saw back in the days when I worked in a Philadelphia jail...

Dumb Foreign Laws
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$12 Million Settlement Approved in Air France Class Action
$12 Million Settlement Approved in Air France Class Action