Where Miguel de Cervantes’ 16th century work is smart, suspenseful, playful and pointed, “Lookingglass Quixote” is ...

Haruki Murakami’s return from a six-year hiatus sees a return to the familiar, but still shines with its emotional depth and ...

This is also the time when Franz Kafka was active, a rather marginalized name in his own age, but in retrospect one of the most important authors in Western literature. The texts are based on genre, ...

But after his fall, beginning in his first days in the hospital, Kureishi started to write furiously. A flurry of ...

Just as he is assigned to be a figure of absurdism, Kafka’s work follows suit. “How are we to avoid those in office becoming deeply corrupt when everything is devoid of meaning?,” Kafka asks. I would ...

How is it that the culture of German-speaking Europe has so profoundly influenced and shaped Western civilization—and especially the culture of the United States—through the centuries and into today?