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.” ...

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Columnist Tom Lubnau writes: "The Republican Party's dispute resolution committee, in one last stroke of arrogance, said its ...

OPINION: The upcoming release of Joan Didion’s journal, “Notes to John,” marks the writer’s induction into an exclusive club ...

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