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One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as ...

In her introduction to her story “Kafka in Bronteland” which concludes our anthology Kafkaesque , Tamar Yellin writes:“For years I ...

Since my first encounter with Kafka‘s writing, I’ve been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in ...

Franz Kafka was a man who struggled with his many contradictions. Although his writing has come to be intensively studied, as ...

The other day I had a discussion with a group of girls about their ideal bat mitzvah (the celebration that ...

I didn’t have a bat mitzvah, the ceremony that marks the coming of age of Jewish girls. When I reached ...

In the few months since our book was published, women of different ages have come up to us with stories ...

Reputedly, Rachmaninoff once said: “There’s no such thing as inspiration. You sit down and do the work.” There’s so much ...

About a decade ago I read a Billy Collins poem called “Advice to Writers,” where this former U.S. Poet Laureate ...

One of my pet peeves is the veritable deluge of prepared foods and “meal assembly” emporia that has overtaken America ...