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1906-1977 American writer of short stories, screenplays and novels of the pulp fiction kind. Thompson wrote over thirty novels, half of them between the...

Will Kafka’s work survive the distorted representations made in his name?

Mathures Paul   |   Published 04.07.21, 01:09 AM It is only in death, 50 years ago, that Jim Morrison’s true legacy is being realised, of his literary output being far potent than his leather trousers, his confident sexiness or the Oedipal rage immortalised in the song The End. He was a poet. “So long as there are human beings, songs and poetry can continue,” said Morrison in 1969, who passed away in Paris on July 3, 1971, under mysterious circumstances th...

Lost and Unfounded This review appears in our Spring 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox. Discussed in this essay: The Lost Writings , by Franz Kafka, edited by Reiner Stach, translated by Michael Hofmann. New Directions, 2020. 128 pages. FRANZ KAFKA’S WRITINGS have from the start been afflicted with dubious editing practices, so I suppose we should not be surprised by another round of the same. Much of the author’s work was published posthumously by his friend Max Brod, who sometimes modified it in the process, rearranging material and wrenching extracts from ...

Locking down with Kafka How the great writer, in his airless, claustrophobic fictions,  provides a guide to living in the pandemic age. In “A Report to an Academy”, a short story published by Franz Kafka in 1919, an ape named Red Peter gives a lecture to a scientific conference, recalling how he was hunted in the jungle and then awoke one day in a cage, unable to return to the old way of life he had loved.  “For the first time in my life I could see no way out,” the ape says of his captivity. “Hopelessly sobbing, painfully hunting for fleas, apathetically licking a coconut, bea...