Why is Franz Kafka's fiction like no one else's? What accounts for what's been called the startling, mysterious, even galvanizing force of Kafka's texts? And if his novella The Metamorphosis is not about a giant cockroach who used to be Gregor Samsa, then what's the real story? Jeff Fort has studied and written about Kafka for years; Mark Jackson directs a current stage adaptation of Kafka's novella.

A number of installations at an exhibition of Renée Green's art address topics like the recovery of unfashionable ideas, the importance of specialized investigation, the relevance of music to political activism, and the search for a meaningful existence.