Day: 17 April 2026

Kafka’s Castle and the closed doors of Holyrood

Kafka’s Castle and the closed doors of Holyrood

THERE IS A SPECIFIC, QUIET HORROR in realizing that the record of a journey has been wiped clean. I was recently invited to join a highly literate book club. “It’s just a group of guys meeting up for a drink and a smoke,” I was reassured. But – and I wasn’t sure if this was […]