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Quote of the day by Franz Kafka: “Start with what is right rather than..."

Quote of the day: Franz Kafka's quote, "Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable," urges individuals to prioritize morality and integrity over social approval. This means choosing ethical correctness, even when it's difficult or unpopular, fostering courage and independent thought in daily decisions.

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Quote of the Day by Franz Kafka: 'You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is...'—Top quotes by the Absurdist fiction novelist, author of The Metamorphosis

Quote of the Day: Franz Kafka, a renowned writer, explored themes of isolation and anxiety. His quote suggests that avoiding the world's suffering can paradoxically lead to deeper personal pain. Kafka's life and works, marked by personal struggles and a unique literary style, continue to resonate today. His writings offer…

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The Clean – 10 of the best

The Dunedin band had an indelible influence on acts such as Pavement and Guided by Voices. A new oral history by Richard Langston is out now

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4 Classic Books That Teach Life Lessons No School Can

In today’s fast-paced world, the importance of digging deep into the fictional worlds created by great authors is increasing day by day. A lot of people think that reading fiction is an act to pass our free time. However, the truth is, great stories and novels can gift us priceless…

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Random Musing: Donald Trump has only one red line. Kristi Noem crossed it...

Franz Kafka wrote in the Zürau Aphorisms: “There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of laziness we cannot return.” In Trumpian paradise, there are also two original sins: blaming Trump for something and being…

The Times of India

Mozart with meatballs, in an Ikea: how opera is facing its existential crisis

In an attempt to find new audiences and save money, opera companies are ‘throwing spaghetti at the wall’ to see what sticks. It often works

The Guardian - AU

3 Timeless Short Fiction Classics That Reveal Life’s Truths

The truth is, in today’s fast-paced world of social media and reels, reading fiction is increasingly becoming an act that requires deeper efforts and focus. While reading a work of fiction we have to bring forth our imaginative capabilities and construct the world inside our minds. This simple step in…

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Jean Tong’s Do Not Pass Go is Kafka for the modern corporate age

In the shadow of Franz Kafka’s visionary dystopian fiction, the faceless, hierarchical machinery of bureaucracy has long served as a symbol of quiet, grinding despair. Kafka’s institutions are at once impenetrable and absurd, systems that trap individuals in a perpetual tension between resignation and the faint, flickering hope of change.

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Salman Rushdie's new book is his first fiction since a brutal attack. He tells us why

Salman Rushdie's new book, “The Eleventh Hour,” marks a creative reset for the author

The Independent UK

W.G. Sebald’s early critical essays mine his great literary themes – exile, trauma, memory and war

“Author as well as professor,” was how Winfried Georg (“Max”) Sebald styled himself in the note attached to an article he contributed to a 1990 issue of the experimental Austrian journal, Trans-Garde. Sebald had long harboured a desire to be an author and had a clear plan for becoming one.…

The Conversation

Are you an otrovert? Why this personality type could be your greatest gift

Feel like you don’t belong? Crave emotional independence? Constantly come up with original ideas? Like Frida Kahlo, Franz Kafka and Albert Einstein, you could have a distinct case of otroversion ...

The Guardian - UK

“Jeff Lynne and Yes are in the music of Radiohead, Sigur Rós and Muse. It’s overlooked in theirs but not in mine. I don’t have the self-validation I’d like”: Steven Wilson is grateful for prog fans’ support, but he wishes others liked him too

Arguing that pop isn’t as all-embracing as it used to be, he examines the nature of being a nerd with an ego, and wonders if the flawed musical gear his dad built him meant he was always going to make prog sounds

Louder

Judge compares Trump’s Alien Enemies deportations to ‘Kafka’-esque nightmare that ‘entombed’ immigrants in El Salvador

Judge James Boasberg orders the government to give dozens of deported Venezuelans a chance to challenge their removals in court

The Independent UK

I found myself Googling: can brain cancer cause hiccups? How I fell into a hypochondriac rabbit hole

Begging doctors for tests, I worried that I was missing something and heading for an early death. Would understanding the roots of my health anxiety lead me to a cure?

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The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

The Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies; Lovers of Franz K by Burhan Sönmez; Back in the Day by Oliver Lovrenski; Waist Deep by Linea Maja Ernst

Sports Illustrated

Once Decimated Under Nazi Rule, the Austrian Hakoah Sports Club Is Alive Again

Founded in 1909 to foster a new image and confidence among Jews in Vienna, it flourished before it was banned. Today, the club and its spirit are revitalized.

The Conversation

Punishment in search of a crime – Franz Kafka’s The Trial at 100

“A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” It is a quintessential Kafka image. I see an ice-axe, the sharpened point of its curved metal head shattering a vast plane of ice into hairline…

The Conversation

Once a bestseller, now forgotten – why William by E.H. Young deserves a revisit

In a year filled with centenaries of famous novels, including Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Franz Kafka’s The Trial, another novel also quietly turns 100. William was published in 1925 by the once-celebrated, now largely forgotten, E.H. Young.

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Salon

Fascism is here: Are liberals awake yet?

Welcome to upside-down America: David Brooks calls for revolution while Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom grovel

Louder

“Way Of The Exploding Dickhead is a modern parable, without the parable bit.” Noise-rock veterans mclusky announce first album in over 20 years, share two new songs, and reveal UK and Australia tour plans

the world is still here and so are we will be released via Mike Patton's Ipecac label

Reason

"Kafkaesque" Gun Background Check Delays May Violate Second Amendment

From Judge Trevor McFadden's opinion last week in Sedita v. U.S. (D.D.C.): "Where was the Judge whom he had never… The post "Kafkaesque" Gun Background Check Delays May Violate Second Amendment appeared first on Reason.com.

The Guardian - UK

Silent Catastrophes by WG Sebald review – academic writing at its most sterile

A collection of professional leftovers that can only diminish the posthumous reputation of a master of high literature

PC Gamer

The most promising Disco Elysium successor studio says workers must unite to topple Valve's 'digital fiefdom' of Steam

So comrades, come rally.

Fortune

Exclusive: Ramp, valued at $7.65 billion, launches its own app store

Ramp is launching its own app store, called the Ramp App Center, Fortune has exclusively learned.

The Guardian - UK

Alienation effect: why film-makers can’t get enough of Franz Kafka

A string of auteur directors – from Orson Welles to Steven Soderbergh to Lorenza Mazzetti – have fallen for Kafka’s visionary brilliance, with always-intriguing results

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