This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony, held at the Simon Fraser University Gallery from April 25 to June 27, 2009.

Illustrated with 16 pages of colour, the book examines the subject matter of the show ? both bureaucracy and penal colonies ? and includes short texts by authors who saw the show in person. With texts by Ian Angus, Lee Bacchus, Michael Barnholden, Michael Bourke, Rob Brownie, Willie Brisco, Kathi Diamant, Brian Graham, Mark Jaskela, Bill Jeffries, Tom McGauley, Tom Morris, ryan andrew murphy, carl peters, Kaia Scott, Peyman Vahabzadeh, Jerry Zaslove.