Franz Kafka, Author, read by Alan Scarfe, Jack Wetherall. CBC Audio $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-660-19550-6 Relatively unknown as a writer during his short lifetime, Kafka (1883–1924) became a major ...

In this new series dubbed Entry Point, we decode widely read and famously referenced authors like Franz Kafka and tell you ...

Far from being completely unmusical, as he himself claimed, Kafka's unconventional tastes were ahead of his time, argues Will Self As with so much concerning Kafka – his strange life, and stranger ...

The best thing a biographer of Franz Kafka can do is bring the famed author back to earth. Not as regards his reputation, which is justifiably lofty. But to humanize Kafka and save him from our ...

Before succumbing to tuberculosis in 1924, a month shy of his 41st birthday, Franz Kafka made clear to his best friend and literary executor, Max Brod, that he wanted all of his unpublished ...

In 2006, German author and editor Reiner Stach told an American reporter there was no definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Actually, there is. And he’s written it. My favorite book of 2013 is actually ...

The fiction in this week’s issue, “The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time,” is a series of very short pieces by Franz Kafka that will appear this fall in the New Directions book “The Lost Writings.” ...

THE DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA, 1910-1913 (345 pp.)—Edited by Max Brod—Schocken ($3.75). In 1910, when Franz Kafka was 26, he began keeping a diary. His personality was already obsessed by anxieties that ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Earlier today, the LA Review of Books published an interview with Jewish book cover designer, Peter Mendelsund. Even if you don’t recognize the name, if you’re a reader you’ve almost certainly seen ...