Is This a Good Book?

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I loved it. It's a particular kind of absurdity that just feeds, tha, feeds my soul, like it scratches some kind of itch. Ye, ye, no, exactly. I think it's a total masterpiece. And actually reads, and if you haven't read it, listeners, you should absolutely read it. The end has to be the end,. ecause there's nothing to indicate that, like, his goods came back the end, but the other ones, ye. That seems, seems like a pretty decent indicator that he had no interest.

David and Tamler wander through the bewildering dream-like world of Franz Kafka’s "The Trial." In part one of a two-part discussion we discuss the circumstances of its publication, the various interpretative approaches that can be taken to the novel, and all the ways that Kafka’s prose gets under your skin, making you feel what’s happening even if you don’t fully understand it. Recorded in the decidedly un-Kafka-esque location of Nosara, Costa Rica – thanks to the Harmony Hotel for having us back!

Plus – Social Psychologists for Peace send an open letter to Vladimir Putin urging him to reverse course on the tragic invasion of Ukraine. Putin seems intent on toppling the Ukranian government but has he considered Sherif et al (1961), Tajfel (1977), Festinger (1954), and Brewer (1991)?