At Bookforum, Andrew Hulktrans on Susan Bernofsky’s new translation of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.

Alain de Botton was interviewed about his new book Art as Therapy.

Douglas Wolk reviewed the new edition of the Velvet Underground’s White Light/White Heat for Pitchfork.

Sabra Embury on Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon’s Nothing.

David Rees and Michael Kupperman have begun a comic strip for the Sunday Times.

At Artforum, Ross McElwee remembers the documentary filmmaker Ed Pincus.

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