Karinthy’s Kafkaesque Classic In Translation At Last

Things have changed a bit since Metropole was first published to great acclaim in Hungary in 1970.

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas

Kafka never sent this letter to his father, but instead showed it to friends. Justin Cartwright imagines the father’s reply.

Charter 08

The document below, signed by over three hundred prominent Chinese citizens, was conceived and written in conscious admiration of the founding of Charter 77

Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges

…how feminists might engage with development. In particular, it explores how many of the gender orthodoxies became embedded in GAD thinking and programming.

The British in France: Visitors and Residents since the Revolution

He sees them through the eyes of Britons who settled in France or tourists who trod its soil for a brief holiday

Tribes of clutter. The Comfort of Things

A new study of contemporary Londoners’ possessions and the values they attach to them reveals a shift of allegiance away from wider society and towards the individual household

The real Kafka, warts,porn, whores and all

These are the bald facts. But Franz Kafka, the man, or better still the noun-phrase, conjures up far much more than that.

Factory for unhappy people

Mr Delves Broughton did not set out to write a book about the course. Nor is this probably the book that HBS would choose to mark its 100th birthday, which it is celebrating extensively this year.

Utopians’ bonfire of profanities

The two extremes reflect the ambivalent attitudes people have always had to burning books, says Fishburn, who works in the rare book business. People still burn books for all sorts of reasons, he tells the HES.

Fishing in Utopia

The notion of Sweden as a modern democratic utopia has long beguiled the left and perplexed the right.

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