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dreyfus: spy fever pitch
Careless pillow talk. And to see the treason from the forest… To explain the impact of Col. Sandherr’s “discovery” on his superiors, it may be useful to recall certain aspects of the military and the social history of the period. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alan M. Dershowitz, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Col. Jean Sandherr, Col. Max von Schwartzkoppen, Edouard Drumont, Franz Kafka, Frederick Karl, Gen. Felix Gustave Saussier, Hannah Arendt, Leslie Derfler, Marcel Proust, Maurice Weil, Max Brod, Peter Lefcourt, Piers Paul Read, Richard Dreyfuss, Sander Gilman, The Dreyfus Affair
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jailbird love songs
All the arguments for de-legitimizing Israel are fair game. Not for the supposed and ostensible reasons we usually hear, excessive violence, and racism for example, but because the country is totally inept, and for its own security and those of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Ami Popper, Amos Oz, Ben Dror Yemini, Bob Dylan, bob dylan world gone wrong, Franz Kafka, George Grosz, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Lyonel Feininger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthias Grunewald, Max Brod, MK Shlomo Benizri, Moshe Katsav, Ray Caesar art, Ron Myberg, shimon peres, Steven Plaut
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hayseeds go back to the country
To everything there is a season. And a reason? Its not easy to get at the root causes of Arab world anti-Westernism. it does not seem like a pure hate, but rather the antagonism of the love-hate relationship, like intense … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Ali al-Ahmed IGA, Bob Dylan Can't Wait, david yerushalmi, Esther Hoffe, Eva Hoffe, Franz Kafka, Judith Butler, Katya Adler BBC, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ludwig Meidner, Madame Pickwick, Max Brod, Max Burchartz, Melanne Verveer, oskar schlemmer, Pamela Geller, Ray Hanania, Sergei Eisenstein, The Institute for Gulf Affairs, uri avnery, Walter Benjamin
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J.D : still be-Holden
The critics always worked busily to classify J.D. Salinger. He always eluded them. There was always a feeling in many quarters that altogether too much fuss was being made about J.D. Salinger. George Steiner once castigated it as “The Salinger … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Alfred Kazin, Catcher in the Rye, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, George Steiner, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mary McCarthy, Max Brod, Maxwell Geismer, Richard Prince, Salinger Franny and Zooey, Seymour Glass J.D. Salinger
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what if there was no back then
Not impressed. Deeply dissatisfied. But not surprised at this confrontation with the passive-aggressive; the yearning to be like him, then the abject tragedy arising when the initiative is undertaken. Harold Bloom was just the man to review Robert Crumb’s The … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged emmanuel levinas, Franz Kafka, Harold Bloom, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Max Brod, pauline pistis, Randy Newman, Robert Crumb, Sam Harris, Theodor Adorno, Walt Whitman, Walter Benjamin, William Blake, William James
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ethics and idle fancy: in the attic
Kafka was as much about non-arrival at destinations as he was about non-belonging. In any event there are problems of destination and leaving, coming and going often resemble each other. But as Kafka seems to figure, the pull of Jews … Continue reading
brothers in arms: miles from nowhere
Ironic. Kafka’s writing was centered around the concept of non-belonging and by extension, about belonging too much. Almost an adversarial relationship with Maimonides golden mean, the elusive middle. Better to poke emotional catastrophe in the groin and hear he roar … Continue reading
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Tagged Caravaggio, David Mairowitz, felice bauer, Franz Kafka, George Steiner, Gilles Deleuze, Hannah Arendt, John Updike, Judith Butler, Marc Chagall, Max Brod, Milena Jesenska, Robert Crumb, Sander L. Gilman, Walter Benjamin
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kafka by the pound : surprise pack
Weights and Measures. Precision. A commodity worth its weight in shekels. Better yet, take the talens of silver and gold. The trial he could not have foreseen. The scales of justice where his literary manuscripts, letters, diverse scribblings, and so … Continue reading
where the streets have no name
There is sanctity in the value of human life. Or so the expression goes. Every life is worth the world. But, there are alot of exceptions, asteriks, and legal loopholes and hoops to jump through. So, what happens when hierarchies, … Continue reading
going home
…The work he undertook at the Institute, combining as it did absurdity with tragedy, degradation, and humble passivity, had a tremendous impact on his writing as well. He wrote in a letter to Max Brod: In my four districts—apart from … Continue reading
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Tagged elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones, Franz Kafka, Lionel S. Reiss, Max Brod, Thomas Eakins
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