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Virtually every artist dreams of making an impact with their work, and writers are no different—but in some cases, authors don’t live to see their works become classics.

A new translation of the author's aphorisms suggests that Kafka may have been even more prescient than initially thought.

Whether from a lack of confidence, concerns over sensitive contents, a change of direction, or simply a fit of pique, a number of artists and writers have destroyed their own work.

A number of valuable, important, or rare manuscripts have been swiped from authors or the individuals or institutions tasked with taking care of them. Here’s a sampling of them.

Season tickets are now available at desertensembletheatre.org and individual show tickets go on sale Aug. 7.

From the blog of Steven Weinberg at The Times of Israel

Drawings by literary legend Franz Kafka have been published for the first time in a new volume by Yale University Press.

The Red Studio allows us to enter the life and mind of the artist.

The author has announced a special edition of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ that cannot be set on fire.

Margaret Atwood’s new fireproof copy of The Handmaid’s Tale protests book banning – and burning. The Venn diagram of those who burn books and those who read them is typically two separate circles.