The scene illustrates as well as anything the problem of trying to write a history of that endlessly fascinating but ...
I had a friend call me the other night who was struggling to communicate his personality and accomplishments in his ...
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Franz Kafka’s Best Friend

Kafka’s late story about a philosopher dog, like most of his stories about animals, is really about our lost humanity.
Sci-fi is the perfect genre to ask tough questions and provoke discussions, and movies like Arrival and Ad Astra have done it ...
Over the last decade, the debate over how much China is influencing our infrastructure and institutions has escalated.
Carlo Chatrian was one of the speakers at the latest edition of the conference, organised under the aegis of the Saudi Film ...
My meeting with ‘scary’ Margaret Atwood - IN FOCUS: When they first met, Robert McCrum found out the hard way how easily the ...
In an essay for The Envelope, the writer-director explains how he overcame 'white hot panic' to find the heart of his ...
Artists can input into a 3D pose modeling program various positions of the character -- for instance, standing and then ...
An interview with the directors behind "Little Amélie or the Character of Rain," the new animated film from GKIDS.
A little more than a year ago, on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, some colleagues and I met a 12-year-old Masai boy named Richard Turere, who told us a fascinating story. His family raises livestock on the ...
High school teachers can use texts from the canon to promote the skills their schools or states have identified as essential for graduates.