Karinthy’s Kafkaesque Classic In Translation At Last
January 4, 2009
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
December 20, 2008
Kafka never sent this letter to his father, but instead showed it to friends. Justin Cartwright imagines the father’s reply.
Charter 08
December 13, 2008
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
December 6, 2008
…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
November 29, 2008
He sees them through the eyes of Britons who settled in France or tourists who trod its soil for a brief holiday